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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:15:03 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: sym53c875: reading /proc causes SCSI parity error
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   From: Gérard Roudier <groudier@free.fr>
   Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:14:52 +0100 (CET)
   
   This is a known issue that had been discussed in time, but no fix had been
   considered worth to be applied by PCI et co maintainers.

Why not just put some bitmap pointer into the pci device
struct.  If it is non-NULL, it specifies PCI config space
areas which have side-effects.