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Message-Id: <200905210846.18292.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 May 2009 08:46:17 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>,
	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: do assign root bus res if _CRS is used

On Wednesday 20 May 2009 5:49:10 pm Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2009 16:40:10 -0600
> Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> wrote:
> > Did anything happen with this?
> > 
> > The longer we wait to make "use_crs" the default, the harder it
> > will be, so I'd like to push ahead.
> 
> Here's a patch to make CRS the default.  If it looks ok I can push it
> into my linux-next branch.  I'm all for using reliable data from the
> BIOS.  I guess we'll find out fairly quickly if this stuff isn't...

Thanks for following up on this, Jesse.  It was on my to-do list for
yesterday, but I didn't get to it.

Yinghai mentioned a specific box where we might have trouble, but we
never got enough details to really debug it.  So I think we might as
well give it a shot and fine-tune it as we need to.

Bjorn
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