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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:18:50 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: State of the Linux PCI Subsystem for 2.6.23-rc8
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:22:35AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:40:58PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
>>>> Greg KH wrote:
>>>>> Here's a summary of the current state of the Linux PCI subsystem, as of
>>>>> 2.6.23-rc8.
>>>>>
>>>>> If the information in here is incorrect, or anyone knows of any
>>>>> outstanding issues not listed here, please let me know.
>>>>>
>>>>> List of outstanding regressions from 2.6.22:
>>>>> 	- none known.
>>>>>
>>>>> List of outstanding regressions from older kernel versions:
>>>>> 	- none known.
>>>>>   
>>>> What about http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=119072400008538&w=2 ?
>>> That's not a regression, right?  Tt's probably never worked for that
>>> kind of box :)
>>> I think the pci bus patches that are pending from Jeff Garzik should fix
>>> up these issues.  They are in one of his trees, and in the -mm release,
>>> if you are able to test those.
>> jgarzik/misc-2.6.git#pciseg has my only outstanding PCI stuff, which is a 
>> small x86[-64] PCI domain support patch.  Mostly unrelated to the thread at 
>> hand, alas, even though it was touching that area.
>>
>> I need to a few changes required by Andi, who made several good points, 
>> then the PCI domains thing should be ready for upstream.  I don't care much 
>> who merges it, you, Andi or me.
> 
> I'll take it, as I guess it should go through me, Andi is going to have
> enough merge issues for 2.6.24 :)
> 
> I'll add them to my tree later today.

Please don't pull 'pciseg' just yet...  it needs the fixes Andi pointed 
out, namely, it should be turned on by default in x86 / x86-64 platform 
Kconfig, and have a boot-time method of disabling it.

	Jeff


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