Re: [linux-pm] Bug in PCI core

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Oct 13 2006 - 12:43:25 EST


Ar Gwe, 2006-10-13 am 12:34 -0400, ysgrifennodd Adam Belay:
> I agree this needs to be fixed. However, as I previously mentioned,
> this isn't the right place to attack the problem. Remember, this wasn't
> originally a kernel regression. Rather it's a workaround for a known

It's a kernel regression. It used to be reliable to read X resource
addresses at any time.

> Finally, it's worth noting that this issue is really a corner-case, and
> in most systems it's extremely rare that even incorrect userspace apps
> would have any issue.

Except just occasionally and randomly in the field, probably almost
undebuggable and irreproducable - the very worst conceivable kind of
bug.

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