linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Workaround for a PCI restoring bug

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Message-id: <464672BD.7010507@shaw.ca>
Date:	Sat, 12 May 2007 20:06:53 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@....muni.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Workaround for a PCI restoring bug

Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> as of 2.6.21-git16, the bugs related to restoring PCI are still present. The
> save pci function reads only -1 from the PCI config space and when restoring,
> it messes up totaly most PCI devices. The attached patch is workaround only
> until proper fix is found and included. Could it be included into the mainline
> for now?

It's not really a fix, that value might be legitimately supposed to be 
in the config space. Sounds like some driver is disabling the device 
before saving the state or something..

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