Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:00:26 -0700
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       linux kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       andreas.eckstein@gmx.net, Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Subject: Re: pci-disable-decoding-during-sizing-of-bars.patch no longer needed
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:50:51PM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The patch titled pci-disable-decoding-during-sizing-of-bars.patch in -mm 
> was previously used as a candidate to fix a boot hang with Intel's Q35 
> chipset: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198810
> 
> However, that particular issue is solved by commit a0ca9909609 in Linus 
> tree:
> 	PCI x86: always use conf1 to access config space below 256 bytes
> 
> So unless there are other reasons for keeping 
> pci-disable-decoding-during-sizing-of-bars around, I think we can drop it.

I agree it should be dropped.

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