Re: [patch] pci: revert "PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing"

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Gary Hade wrote:
> 
> Could be but without the sizing removal I doubt that the fix I
> was going to propose (see below) would be the same.  What I had
> found is that the removal of the transparent bridge sizing was
> leaving the resource record for at least region 7 (IO) of a
> hot-added transparent bridge on the docking station in a state
> that was not palatable with later executed code in pdev_sort_resource().

Ahh, ok, so it was directly caused by simply not sizing and setting up the 
bus resources properly.

> Even though the restoration of the transparent bridge sizing
> corrects the problem, pdev_sort_resource() could probably use
> some bulletproofing.  I will take a look at this.

Thanks,

			Linus
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