linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] PCI-X/PCI-Express read control interfaces

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Message-ID: <20061213161734.42821fdf@freekitty>
Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:17:34 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] PCI-X/PCI-Express read control interfaces

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:48:32 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:22 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > This patch set adds hooks to set PCI-X max read request size
> > and PCI-Express read request size. It is important that this be a PCI
> > subsystem function rather than a per device hack. That way, the PCI
> > system quirks can be used if needed.
> 
> Excellent, I've been needing that to work around bogus firmwares...
> 
> Ben.
> 
> 

I am thinking in the next revision of these of masking the distinction
between pci-x and pci express and just have:

pci_get_read_count
pci_get_max_read_count
pci_set_read_count



-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
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