Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754782AbYANJQr (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:16:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752931AbYANJQk (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:16:40 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:46428 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752743AbYANJQj (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:16:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:11:45 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: tcamuso@redhat.com, Ivan Kokshaysky , Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , Linus Torvalds , 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 Message-ID: <20080114091145.13a85db3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080113173331.617ac935@laptopd505.fenrus.org> 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> <20080113173331.617ac935@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.3; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 19 > > even when designed for Redmond products. > > I find it hard to believe that even they have their drivers do PCI config access via ports directly from the drivers, > and especially in driver reference code... Microsoft may not but the standard of Taiwanese driver code (and by reference I mean vendor reference not OS supplier reference) is not always great. When you have weeks to write a driver for a product with a 6 month sales lifetime I guess there are other pressures on driver authors. Easy enough for Intel to analyse though. Alan -- 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/