Re: Problem with pci_fixups in drivers/pci/probe.c

[Dominik Brodowski]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:46:35PM -0800, alan wrote:
> I went to patch the current FC5T1 kernel and found that the patch no 
> longer applied.  On further investigation I found that the patch had been 
> added to the kernel, but some helpful soul had added a subroutine that 
> made it absolutely worthless to anyone on x86 architecture.

See
http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=12f44f46bc9c6dc79255e661b085797af395d8da
and
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5557
for more information on this issue.

> My cardbus devices will thank you.

Well, you can add "pci=assign-busses" as boot parameter, and then the
cardbus devices should work. Alternatively, I'd propose making
pcibios_assign_all_busses default to 1 on x86-64 (at least), possibly also on
x86.

	Dominik
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