linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 2/3] x86: remove duplicated parser for "pci=noacpi"

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Message-ID: <5986589C150B2F49A46483AC44C7BCA4907241@ssvlexmb2.amd.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:46:52 -0800
From:	"Lu, Yinghai" <yinghai.lu@....com>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <ak@....de>
cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"Len Brown" <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/3] x86: remove duplicated parser for "pci=noacpi"


-----Original Message-----
From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@....de] 
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 4:22 PM

>Are you sure it's correct? The drivers/pci pci= parsing
>isn't early and there tend to be nasty ordering issues.
>I can't see where it would go wrong here, but it probably
>needs very careful double checking.

I double check that, we don't need the parser in
arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c for 
pci=noapci.

Actually, pcibios_setup in arch/i386/kernel/pci/common.c that process
pci=noacpi will be
called by pci_setup in drivers/pci/pci.c, and 
early_param("pci", pci_setup);

YH


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