netdev - Re: PCI VPD size

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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:52:48 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Benjamin Li <benli@...adcom.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI VPD size

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Why did you choose to limit VPD access by using PCI quirks:
>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=99cb233d60cbe644203f19938c729ea2bb004d70
> 
> Rather than controlling size in the device driver which is what my
> patches (which seem to have been ignored) did:
>   http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122393195716363&w=2
> 
> The problem with the quirk scheme is that it means putting more
> per device settings in a location farther away in the source code
> than the underlying device driver.

The limit needs to be set in quirks because VPD I/O beyond that limit
causes those devices to stop responding.  If I understand correctly,
you're only reducing the limit as an optimisation.

Ben.

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