Re: [PATCH] reverse pci config space restore order

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 06:51:07 EST


On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 11:48 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:50:57PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:
>
> > - for (i = 0; i < 16; i++)
> > + for (i = 15; i >= 0 ; i--)
>
> We certainly need to do /something/ here, but I'm not sure this is it.
> Adam Belay has code to limit PCI state restoration to the PCI-specified
> registers, with the idea being that individual drivers fix things up
> properly. While this has the obvious drawback that almost every PCI
> driver in the tree would then need fixing up, it's also probably the
> right thing.

it has a second drawback: it assumes all devices HAVE a driver, which
isn't normally the case...

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