linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, pci: Fix all early PCI scans to check the vendor ID first

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Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:24:40 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...com>
CC:	Betty Dall <betty.dall@...com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, pci: Fix all early PCI scans to check the vendor
 ID first

On 08/12/2012 08:23 PM, Khalid Aziz wrote:
>
> If that is the case, there is a problem in the original code in
> arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c.The original code already stops scanning
> functions the first time it finds an invalid PCI class:
>

Unless we can prove that that is invalid *for that specific case*, then 
it is definitely wrong, and yes, I have seen devices in the field with 
multiple, discontiguous functions.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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