netdev - Re: [PATCH net v4] r8169: Add bios support.

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Message-ID: <1454767054.4383.2.camel@marian1000.go.ro>
Date:	Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:57:34 +0200
From:	Corcodel Marian <asd@...ian1000.go.ro>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4] r8169: Add bios support.

On Sat, 2016-02-06 at 02:39 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Corcodel Marian <asd@...ian1000.go.ro>
> Date: Sat,  6 Feb 2016 08:31:26 +0200
> 
> > @@ -8262,8 +8262,9 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> >       rtl_hw_reset(tp);
> >  
> >       rtl_ack_events(tp, 0xffff);
> > -
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_BIOS_SUPPORT
> >       pci_set_master(pdev);
> > +#endif
> 
> I already made it clear to you that it is perfectly fine to
> unconditionally
> call pci_set_master() from the driver in any circumstance.
> 
> Look across all of the drivers under drivers/net/ that invoke this
> function,
> it's meant to be used this way and it's fine.
> 
> There is absolutely no reason to conditionalize it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

May be but i'm not sure this must tested on every driver.