Re: SNB PCI root information

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's not a question of "do BIOSes get this wrong?" ÂThe question is
> "what does a user expect to happen when she supplies
> 'pci=busnum_node=00:00,80:01'?" ÂI contend that the user expects us to
> use that info whether the BIOS gave us correct info, wrong info, or
> nothing at all.

Think about busnum_node as busnum_default_node.  Then the behavior
makes perfect sense.

I contend that the really the only reason for overwriting is if there
are wrong BIOS.
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