From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261731AbVAMVwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:52:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261728AbVAMVwG (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:52:06 -0500 Received: from colin2.muc.de ([193.149.48.15]:9733 "HELO colin2.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261730AbVAMVuq (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:50:46 -0500 Date: 13 Jan 2005 22:50:44 +0100 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:50:44 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Alan Cox Cc: brking@us.ibm.com, paulus@samba.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend) Message-ID: <20050113215044.GA1504@muc.de> References: <41E2AC74.9090904@us.ibm.com> <20050110162950.GB14039@muc.de> <41E3086D.90506@us.ibm.com> <1105454259.15794.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050111173332.GA17077@muc.de> <1105626399.4664.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050113180347.GB17600@muc.de> <1105641991.4664.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050113202354.GA67143@muc.de> <1105645491.4624.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1105645491.4624.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:44:52PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 20:23, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > X needs to be able to find the device layout in order to build its PCI > > > mappings. Cached data is probably quite sufficient for this. > > > > I mean i would expect it to continue scanning other entries when it sees > > an error on one. Is that not true? > > X needs to be able to find the device layout in order to build its PCI > mappings. If there are things mysteriously vanishing now and then its > not going to have valid mappings I could see it as a problem when it happens on a bridge, but why should it be a problem when some arbitary, nothing to do with X leaf is temporarily not available? -Andi