Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:30:58 +0100
From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de,
       linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue
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Hello!

> Just make it so. The name is fine, the concept is unavoidable. The people 
> who complain are whiners that haven't ever had to deal with the fact that 
> there are broken machines around. 

I complain as well as the maintainer of the pciutils. Breaking all userspace
accesses to extended configuration space just because there is a couple
of chipsets which have MMCONFIG messed up is completely unacceptable.

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares                          <mj@ucw.cz>   http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"This quote has been selected randomly. Really." -- M. Ulrichs
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