Re: acpi based pci gap calculation - v3

[Andi Kleen]

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:54 pm Alok Kataria wrote:
> > I have tested it with couple of different BIOS settings and it seems to
> > work as it should.
> >
> > > Most of the PCI bugs we
> > > have at the moment are related to PCI resource allocation failures.  My
> > > hope is that finding more space will fix most of them.  Assuming this
> > > patch doesn't have any dependencies, I can put it in my linux-next
> > > branch.
> > No dependencies, I had added a function e820_search_gap which is used by
> > this patch. This function is already in the mainline tree.
> > Thanks for applying.
>
> Ok, I stuffed it in my linux-next branch.  I'll let it sit there for a day or 
> so though, just to shake out any build problems etc. in linux-next before 
> asking Linus to pull the whole lot.

For me it seems a little risky to push up that early. I think it would 
be better to let it sit longer in linux-next for this. After all this is 
a major change how IO resources are allocated. That is why I didn't pull
it into the ACPI release branch.

-Andi

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