Re: [patch] pci probing

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:48:59 +0200


Hello,

> The PCI command stuff isnt net centric. Its a bios bug trap thats
> generally useful. The latency stuff also applies to some other drivers
> and helps to fix the win98 leaving the device off and 0 latency thn the
> bios not restoring.

Unless you need to be compatible with old kernels, the right answer
is to call pci_set_master() which handles all the latency and bus mastering
fixup stuff itself.

> Otherwise the merge looks the right thing

I'd like to have this helper code in an extra file.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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