Re: 2.6.13.1 locks machine after some time, 2.6.12.5 work fine

[David S. Miller]

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:55:31 -0700 (PDT)

> >         /* Reset expansion ROM address decode enable */
> >         pci_read_config_word(ha->pdev, PCI_ROM_ADDRESS, &w);
> >         w &= ~PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE;
> >         pci_write_config_word(ha->pdev, PCI_ROM_ADDRESS, w);
 ...
> So the above probably works fine, especially since it's just disabling the 
> ROM (ie we don't end up caring at all about the upper bits even if they 
> did get the wrong value). But it's definitely bad practice, and there are 
> probably cards (for which that driver is irrelevant, of course ;) where 
> doing something like the above might not work at all.

I think for consistency the above driver case should still be fixed,
however.  This way when people try to audit the tree for
PCI_ROM_ADDRESS config space accesses, they won't come across this
same instance again and again.
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