Re: PATCH: IDE PCI init cleanup

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:53:03 +0200


Hi Alan,

> The bttv one is for the S3 card bug. That should be in the fixups

In my new PCI code, S3 bugs should be handled appropriately
as one of the PCI quirks.

> > 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.

Yes, but not inside drivers.

Have a nice fortnight

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