Re: [PATCH][2.6] PCI Scan all functions

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:55:01AM -0600, Jake Moilanen wrote:
> There are some arch, like PPC64, that need to be able to scan all the
> PCI functions.  The problem comes in on a logically partitioned system
> where function 0 on a PCI-PCI bridge is assigned to one partition and
> say function 2 is assiged to another partition.  On the second
> partition, it would appear that function 0 does not exist, but function
> 2 does.  If all the functions are not scanned, everything under function
> 2 would not be detected.

Heh, I think the PPC64 people need to get together and all talk about
this, as I just got a different patch, that solves much the same problem
from John Rose (it's on the linuxppc64 mailing list.)

Can you two get together and not patch the same section of code to do
the same thing in different ways?

thanks,

greg k-h
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