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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
To: davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller)
Cc: acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan),
	jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik),
	tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com (Tom Gall),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:04:10 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200106141904.f5EJ4AD413350@saturn.cs.uml.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15145.1739.395626.842663@pizda.ninka.net> from "David S. Miller" at Jun 14, 2001 11:47:39 AM

David S. Miller writes:
> Albert D. Cahalan writes:

>>    You've added an ioctl. This isn't just any ioctl. It's a
>>    wicked nasty ioctl. It's an OH MY GOD YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS
>>    ioctl by any standard.
>
> It's an ioctl which allows things to work properly in the
> framework we currently have.

It's a hack that keeps us stuck with the existing mistakes.
We need a transition path to get us away from the old mess.

>>    Fix:
>>
>>    /proc/bus/PCI/0/0/3/0/config   config space
>
> Which breaks xfree86 instantly.  This fix is unacceptable.

Nope. Keep /proc/bus/pci until Linux 3.14 if you like.
The above is /proc/bus/PCI. That's "PCI", not "pci".
We still have /proc/pci after all.

> In fact, the current ioctl/mmap machanism was discussed with and
> agreed to by the PPC, Alpha, and Sparc64 folks.

Did you somehow miss when Linus scolded you a few weeks ago?
How about asking somebody who helps maintain /proc, like Al Viro?

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-14 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-13 10:02 Going beyond 256 PCI buses Tom Gall
2001-06-13 17:17 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-13 18:29   ` Tom Gall
2001-06-14 14:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 15:15   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 17:59   ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-06-14 20:50     ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-06-14 14:24 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 14:32   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 14:42   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 15:29     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 15:33       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 18:01   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-14 18:47   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 19:04     ` Albert D. Cahalan [this message]
2001-06-14 19:12     ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 19:41       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 19:57       ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 20:08         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 20:14         ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:30           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-14 21:46             ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 21:48             ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:57               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-14 22:12               ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 22:29                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-14 22:49                 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 23:35                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-14 23:35                 ` VGA handling was [Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses] James Simmons
2001-06-14 23:42                 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 23:55                   ` James Simmons
2001-06-15 15:14                     ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-15  2:06                   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-15  8:52                   ` Matan Ziv-Av
2001-06-14 21:35           ` Going beyond 256 PCI buses David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:46             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-16 21:32           ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-16 23:29             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-15  8:42       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-06-15 15:38       ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 19:03   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 20:56     ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 15:13 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-06-14 15:17   ` Jeff Garzik

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