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From: Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Michael Geithe <warpy@gmx.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mastergoon@gmail.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 (nvidia breakage)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:22:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040824172245.GJ1078@hygelac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408240926.42665.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:26:42AM -0600, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com wrote:
> To be pedantically clear about this, looking at pci_dev->irq before
> calling pci_enable_device() is *guaranteed* to fail, regardless of
> what the BIOS does.  So nvidia users will have to use "pci=routeirq"
> until there's a new version of the nvidia driver.

ah, ok. thanks for clarifying.

> I'm assuming your patch makes the driver call pci_enable_device()
> before using either irq or BAR information.  That's the best way
> to future-proof the driver.

yes, that's exactly what we've done.

Thanks,
Terence


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-24 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040819092654.27bb9adf.akpm@osdl.org>
2004-08-19 16:51 ` 2.6.8.1-mm2 (nvidia breakage) Bjorn Helgaas
2004-08-19 17:53   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-19 21:51     ` Terence Ripperda
2004-08-19 22:03       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-08-19 22:22         ` Alan Cox
2004-08-19 22:58         ` Terence Ripperda
2004-08-20 15:53           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-08-20 16:24             ` Michael Geithe
2004-08-20 19:04             ` Terence Ripperda
2004-08-23 15:30           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-08-23 19:01             ` Terence Ripperda
2004-08-24 15:26               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-08-24 17:22                 ` Terence Ripperda [this message]
2004-08-24 17:36                 ` Roland Dreier
2004-08-24 22:03                   ` Terence Ripperda
2004-08-24 22:35                     ` 2.6.8.1-mm2 (nvidia breakage) [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-08-24  5:17 2.6.8.1-mm2 (nvidia breakage) Michael Geithe

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