Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751839AbYANFXS (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:23:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751016AbYANFXI (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:23:08 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:37488 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750861AbYANFXH (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:23:07 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:20:35 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alan Cox cc: tcamuso@redhat.com, Arjan van de Ven , Ivan Kokshaysky , Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Martin Mares , Loic Prylli , Prarit Bhargava , "Chumbalkar, Nagananda" , "Schoeller, Patrick (Linux - Houston, TX)" , Bhavana Nagendra Subject: Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in In-Reply-To: <20080114005434.48340f84@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20080111204228.GP18741@parisc-linux.org> <20080111211753.GR18741@parisc-linux.org> <20080111213803.GS18741@parisc-linux.org> <20080111235856.GA16079@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20080112002638.GA18710@kroah.com> <20080112144030.GA19279@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20080112094557.71f5382a@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080112214911.GA20102@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20080112150120.05f93768@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <47895767.3090503@redhat.com> <20080112164006.6f6f7bc2@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <47896B3B.2000108@redhat.com> <20080112204248.29abb1dd@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <478A075F.7010503@redhat.com> <20080113090311.0a9a1db5@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <478A8268.6020107@redhat.com> <20080114005434.48340f84@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 20 On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > As someone gently pointed out to me, you are in a position to know this, > > so I probably am wrong. > > I suspect Arjan is wrong. It might be some Intel agenda but I still see > fairly new driver reference code that is hardcoding port accesses even > when designed for Redmond products. Agreed. I suspect that the likelihood of conf1 accesses going away in the next five years is slim to none. 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/