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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:51:01 +0100 (CET)
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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: sym53c875: reading /proc causes SCSI parity error
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

>    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.

Or a simple offset beyond which reading data isn't desirable for whatever
reasons.

  Gérard.