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Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:02:49 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: grundler@...isc-linux.org Cc: auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, gregkh@...e.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] PCI: read revision ID by default From: Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:59:53 -0600 > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:46:30PM -0700, Auke Kok wrote: > > Currently there are 97 occurrences where drivers need the pci > > revision ID. We can do this once for all devices. Even the pci > > subsystem needs the revision several times for quirks. The extra > > u8 member pads out nicely in the pci_dev struct. > > Good idea. I always wondered why we read the invariants so often > in the code. BTW, if you add code like this, you also have to add the appropriate code to do this for all the platforms that probe the PCI bus using a firmware device tree like sparc64 and powerpc do. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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