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Message-Id: <20080605124220.5a6245ab.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:42:20 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, rmh@...abtu.com,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OLPC: pci: fix up PCI stuff so that PCI_GOANY supports
 OLPC

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:29:14 -0400
Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net> wrote:

> Previously, one would have to specifically choose CONFIG_OLPC and
> CONFIG_PCI_GOOLPC in order to enable PCI_OLPC.  That doesn't really
> work for distro kernels, so this patch allows one to choose
> CONFIG_OLPC and CONFIG_PCI_GOANY in order to build in OLPC support in
> a generic kernel (as requested by Robert Millan).
> 
> This also moves GOOLPC before GOANY in the menuconfig list.
> 
> Finally, make pci_access_init return early if we detect OLPC hardware.
> There's no need to continue probing stuff, and pci_pcbios_init
> specifically trashes our settings (we didn't run into that before
> because PCI_GOANY wasn't supported).
> 
> It would be great if we could sneak this in for 2.6.26..  *cough*  :)
> 

It looks harmless enough.

> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig    |   11 +++++------
>  arch/x86/pci/init.c |    3 ++-
>  arch/x86/pci/olpc.c |    5 +++--
>  arch/x86/pci/pci.h  |    2 +-

But I never know whether arch/x86/pci is a Jesse thing or an Ingo
thing.  Usual answer: it's an everyone thing and we all make a big mess ;)


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