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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>,
	jdmason@kudzu.us, bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this?
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:28:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080215182822.GA5675@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080215153140.GN1178@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:31:40PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:20:08AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:48:27AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > > In conclusion, our usage doesn't seem lika a good fit for the probe
> > > approach, although it could probably converted provided we got the
> > > ordering right with regards to regular PCI device
> > > initialization. Doesn't seem to be worth the effort.
> > 
> > After reading this, and looking at the code again, I agree.  Thanks for
> > the great explaination, I'll leave the code alone now :)
> 
> Copy the nice explanation from the mail into the code as a comment
> somewhere?

That would be nice.  Muli, want to make a patch for this?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13  0:15 "ide=reverse" do we still need this? Greg KH
2008-02-13  0:16 ` pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary " Greg KH
2008-02-13  2:17   ` Alan Cox
2008-02-13  4:45     ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 12:34       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-13 17:28         ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 18:16           ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 22:20             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-13 23:41               ` Greg KH
2008-02-14  0:02                 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-14  4:58                   ` Greg KH
2008-02-14 13:09               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-14  7:44             ` [discuss] " Andreas Jaeger
2008-02-14 12:11               ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-15  7:17                 ` Greg KH
2008-02-20  0:39                 ` Greg KH
2008-02-13  9:32   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-02-13 17:32     ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 17:47       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-02-13 18:14         ` Greg KH
2008-02-15  7:17           ` Greg KH
2008-02-15  7:48             ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-02-15 15:20               ` Greg KH
2008-02-15 15:31                 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-15 15:46                   ` yong xue
2008-02-15 18:28                   ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-02-17  7:53                     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-02-13  1:41 ` "ide=reverse" do we still " Rene Herman
2008-02-13  4:44   ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 12:06     ` Rene Herman
2008-02-13 12:16       ` Michael Ellerman
2008-02-13 12:46         ` Rene Herman
2008-02-13 22:39           ` Michael Ellerman
2008-02-13 12:57       ` Rene Herman
2008-02-14 17:16     ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-15 13:58       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-13  2:43 ` Ken Moffat
2008-02-13  4:43   ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 15:32     ` Ken Moffat
2008-02-19 15:08       ` Ken Moffat
2008-02-13  7:54 ` [discuss] " Dirk GOUDERS
2008-02-13  8:26   ` Greg KH
2008-02-13  8:54     ` Dirk GOUDERS
2008-02-13 20:00     ` Dirk GOUDERS
2008-02-13 20:48       ` Greg KH

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