netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] 8139too: Make PIO/MMIO a modparam

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Message-ID: <20080715225410.GB10532@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:54:10 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] 8139too: Make PIO/MMIO a modparam

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:18:30PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

 > * [extra project] would be highly useful for MMIO to fall back to PIO, 
 > and vice versa, should any resource be unavailable.  Sometimes, mainly 
 > with MMIO and broken/weird BIOSen, only the PIO PCI BARs will be filled 
 > in with useful info.

Hmm, this bit might actually be fairly trivial on top of my other patch..


--- linux-2.6.26.noarch/drivers/net/8139too.c~	2008-07-15 18:49:02.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.26.noarch/drivers/net/8139too.c	2008-07-15 18:53:07.000000000 -0400
@@ -784,6 +784,7 @@ static int __devinit rtl8139_init_board 
 	DPRINTK("PIO region size == 0x%02X\n", pio_len);
 	DPRINTK("MMIO region size == 0x%02lX\n", mmio_len);
 
+retry:
 	if (use_io) {
 		/* make sure PCI base addr 0 is PIO */
 		if (!(pio_flags & IORESOURCE_IO)) {
@@ -832,9 +833,10 @@ static int __devinit rtl8139_init_board 
 		/* ioremap MMIO region */
 		ioaddr = pci_iomap(pdev, 1, 0);
 		if (ioaddr == NULL) {
-			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot remap MMIO, aborting\n");
-			rc = -EIO;
-			goto err_out;
+			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot remap MMIO, trying PIO\n");
+			pci_release_regions(pdev);
+			use_ui = 1;
+			goto retry;
 		}
 		dev->base_addr = (long) ioaddr;
 		tp->regs_len = mmio_len;

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