Re: resending patch: Documentation/pci.txt

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:49:02 +0000

Bret Indrelee wrote:
>
> I sent this patch out on Nov 3, 1999. Looking at the lastest documentation
> available on kernelnotes.org, it didn't get applied.
>
> I'm resending it, hopefully it will not get discarded again.
>
> I put this together after a lot of discussion on this list about what the
> proper way of handling PCI initialization and access was. Since people told
> me to fix the documentation rather than just complaining, that is exactly
> what I'm attempting to do.
>
> If there is something incorrect in what I wrote, please let me know. I am
> not sure that the lines about
> check_region()/request_region()/release_region() are correct, there don't
> seem to be any PCI drivers doing this. I included it because Jeff Garzik and
> Martin Mares both said it was needed.

I don't know what the general intent of pci.txt is, only Martin can
answer that. Your addition IMHO seems like it belongs in a new
'drivers.txt' not specifically pci.txt, because a lot of the text
applies to all architectures.

Martin already added a pointer to IO-mapping.txt in recent kernels.

And, small error in your text, there is no base_address[] in 2.3.x
kernels.

-- 
Jeff Garzik              | Just once, I wish we would encounter
Building 1024            | an alien menace that wasn't immune to
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       | bullets.   -- The Brigadier, "Dr. Who"


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