Re: PCI bug in 2.6.13

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Sep 11 2005 - 11:09:20 EST




On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Miguel wrote:
>
> After applying this patch I don't see anything new so I have added the
> same WARN_ON in pci_write_config_byte and pci_write_config_word and now
> dmesg shows this:

Thanks. Nobody should ever do a byte write to that offset, but clearly
something does.

And yes, that's what I missed even though I quoted it from the hpt366
driver (heh, and nobody else noticed either):

/* FIXME: Not portable */
if (dev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].start)
pci_write_config_byte(dev, PCI_ROM_ADDRESS,
dev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].start | PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE);

I wonder how long that has been like that.

Change the pci_write_config_byte() into a pci_write_config_dword(), and I
bet it works.

However, I _also_ suspect it works if you remove those lines entirely. I
don't see why it tries to enable the ROM in the first place - it doesn't
seem to be _using_ it.

Linus
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