Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758035AbXJ3Wsc (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:48:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753822AbXJ3WsZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:48:25 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:48013 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753600AbXJ3WsY (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:48:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:48:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jesse Barnes cc: Arjan van de Ven , Robert Hancock , Greg KH , akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@suse.de, rajesh.shah@intel.com, linux-kernel Subject: Re: pci-disable-decode-of-io-memory-during-bar-sizing.patch In-Reply-To: <200710301531.58957.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Message-ID: References: <200708151919.l7FJJfUE010966@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <200710301504.36972.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <200710301531.58957.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 833 Lines: 22 On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > Yeah, that's definitely a problem, and would be a firmware bug. There's > no doubt that firmwares have had trouble with this in the past, but > given that Vista now relies on this stuff working, it's a lot more > likely to be reliable in current and future systems. I agree. I think most of the big problems we had were basically with unreleased or very early systems. But the per-device flag should "just fix it" regardless, and we can go forward assuming that things work, but without breaking those borderline systems. Linus - 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/