Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre7

From: Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 16:37:13 EST

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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:01:13PM +0100, Kai Germaschewski wrote:

> Maybe I'm stating something which is obvious to everybody, but note
> that pci_assign_unassigned_resources is only called from

Possibly, but I don't know either. :)

> ./arch/alpha/kernel/pci.c: pci_assign_unassigned_resources();
> ./arch/mips/ddb5074/pci.c: pci_assign_unassigned_resources();
> ./arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c: pci_assign_unassigned_resources();
>
> so it looks like most archs don't use it anyway. (And that's supposedly
> why pci_set_master helped people on x86)

You're assuming all arches are up to date. Silly you. :) I know there's a
patch to use this for some PReP (PPC) machines. It's quite possible other
arches might be using this but aren't synced up to Linus.

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