Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759994AbYC0QKt (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:10:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756892AbYC0QKl (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:10:41 -0400 Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com ([216.239.58.186]:41123 "EHLO gv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756395AbYC0QKk (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:10:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nMc9+YUR3Y2NxERFi9GNJDh+mnbIKUr7ZoGkYu7dIck2Z7/C6bCsa4Uc7vcbrBYsgRa1ZidS2wQNTFyqXJxtX2iAI5LjKWAmcemOIZnWn8sunt0AJbItdlC9/dIZ9gypyEqLYNYHNBMqg6dUd0mGjrtEQ6tNt2SBqY6NhL9Gw/I= Message-ID: <86802c440803270910q6602606aode3c355bf7947d32@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:10:37 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "Ingo Molnar" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines. Cc: "Thomas Gleixner" , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Andrew Morton" , "Gary Hade" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "kernel list" In-Reply-To: <20080327084557.GH15626@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200803270131.18885.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <20080327084557.GH15626@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1198 Lines: 29 On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > [PATCH] x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines. > > > > so we don't align the io port start address for pci cards. > > > > also move out dmi check out acpi.c, because it has nothing to do with > > acpi. it could spare some calling when we have several peer root > > buses. > > i like this feature, and i've applied your patch to x86.git for testing, > but i'd like to hear what the ACPI and PCI guys think about this. > > Also, we should try as hard as possible to make it a blacklist instead > of a whitelist? It would be cool to support more PCI cards/devices on > all new(-ish) systems by default and if we didnt have to maintain the > DMI whitelist for eternity. (a whitelist will always be incomplete and > will lag behind reality) yeah, blacklist is more good. that limitation is quite old... YH -- 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/