linux-kernel - Re: raw_pci_read in quirk_intel

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:15:50 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tony Camuso <tcamuso@...hat.com>,
	Loic Prylli <loic@...i.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Martin Mares <mj@....cz>
Subject: Re: raw_pci_read in quirk_intel_irqbalance

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:49:54AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Can you also add a comment which points at the Intel documentation?
> 
> http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/30300702.pdf
> Page 34 documents 0xf4 register.

I'm told that these URLs are not guaranteed to be stable.  And
remembering the pain we had when HP decided to relocate all of their
documents, I'm really not inclined to embed a link to a URL in the
source code.

> And I just doubled checked that the 0xf4 register value is restored later
> in the quirk (obvious when you look at the code but not from the patch).

Yep, I checked that too ;-)

> Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>

Thanks.

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