On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 15:18, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> So there seem to be a problem with your patch: pci_config_lock appears
> to be an x86-only thing that lives deep inside arch/i386/xxx/pci-pc.c
> (xxx beeing kernel or pci)
>
> On the other hand, there is already such a lock provided by
> drivers/pci/access.c (pci_lock). You should probably fix your patch
> to use that one. (and eventually get rid of the pci_config_lock
> in x86, provided I didn't miss something else). But does anybody
> but x86 uses CMD640 ? :)
Possibly. I don't know. The lock in question we want is the config lock.
We are issuing configuration cycles so must lock against a parallel
issue of I/O to the configuration ports.
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