Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937830AbXFHFk7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:40:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936396AbXFHFku (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:40:50 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:56954 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936297AbXFHFku (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:40:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:01:04 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dave Jones , bk@suse.de, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Bus hidden behind transparent bridge. Message-ID: <20070608050104.GB18123@kroah.com> References: <20070606063311.GD20745@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070606063311.GD20745@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1575 Lines: 39 On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:33:11AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > We've had this printk in drivers/pci/probe.c asking people > to report it if they see it to linux-kernel for a long time. > > google finds hundreds of instances of this being hit. > There are a bunch in bugzilla too.. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6783 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7403 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7575 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7664 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8074 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8480 > > (possibly others, these are just a quick skim based on summary) > > I don't recall ever seeing anything happen any time someone has > reported this. Is it worth keeping the printk there? > It only seems to cause confusion (users think its an error, > especially as we ask them to do something). > > Better yet, I don't think I've seen a report of this where > the user is actually experiencing a problem. > > Who is the intended recipient of these reports? They should all go to bk@suse.de as he is the one who added that line. In fact, if he doesn't fix it up soon, I'm really tempted to just add his email address there instead, as I'm really tired of getting these emails and he said it would be fixed up by now... thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/