Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760399AbYBOSbT (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:31:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756010AbYBOSbL (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:31:11 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:33919 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755981AbYBOSbJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:31:09 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:28:22 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda , jdmason@kudzu.us, bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this? Message-ID: <20080215182822.GA5675@kroah.com> References: <20080213001506.GA13933@kroah.com> <20080213001638.GB13933@kroah.com> <20080213093225.GA16985@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> <20080213173203.GC10733@kroah.com> <20080213174711.GB22274@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> <20080213181459.GA8960@kroah.com> <20080215071703.GA9022@kroah.com> <20080215074827.GE4334@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> <20080215152008.GA1975@kroah.com> <20080215153140.GN1178@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080215153140.GN1178@uranus.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 24 On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:31:40PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:20:08AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:48:27AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > In conclusion, our usage doesn't seem lika a good fit for the probe > > > approach, although it could probably converted provided we got the > > > ordering right with regards to regular PCI device > > > initialization. Doesn't seem to be worth the effort. > > > > After reading this, and looking at the code again, I agree. Thanks for > > the great explaination, I'll leave the code alone now :) > > Copy the nice explanation from the mail into the code as a comment > somewhere? That would be nice. Muli, want to make a patch for this? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/