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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:34:41 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.20 - Xircom PCI Cardbus doesn't work
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Although there should probably be some way for the driver to tell which
> resources it cares about (some drivers care about the PCI ROM's, for
> example, others don't. Some drivers don't care about the IO region, and
> others don't care about the MEM region). So the _right_ answer might be to
> pass in a bitmap to "pci_enable_device()", which tells the enable code
> which parts the driver really cares about..



Such a mask has been desired before :)

That would indeed be nice.  Still want to keep busmaster enabling 
separate, though...

	Jeff



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