Re: PATCH: IDE PCI init cleanup

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:27:56 +0100 (BST)

> Martin, only one minor nit. You cannot allow drivers to arbitrarily
> change resource values _without_ updating the resource tree. In fact
> this kind of stuff was #if 0'd out in the bttv.c driver for example.

The bttv one is for the S3 card bug. That should be in the fixups
>
> We need to either provide an interface to allow a driver to do this,
> or remove all such instances as the PCI probing boot code should be
> setting these things properly.

For hot swap PCI we will need to change it on the fly anyway.

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