Re: 2.5.5[01]]: Xircom Cardbus broken (PCI resource collisions)

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 12:36:56 EST


On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:18:58PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:33:00 +0100, Petr Konecny <pekon@informatics.muni.cz> said:
> > > I see why the if/continue was added - you don't want to be
> > > calling device_register()/pci_insert_device() if
> > > pci_enable_device() loses. I don't see why 2.5.50 moved the
> > > code up after pci_setup_device(). There's an outside chance
> > > that the concept of moving the call was correct, but that it
> > > should have been moved to between the calls to
> > > pci_assign_resource() and pci_readb(). If that's the case,
> > > then you're correct as well....
> > I can confirm that this indeed works. I moved the two lines before
> > pci_readb and the card works (every character you now read went through
> > it). Who shall submit a patch to Linus ?
>
> The problem is this from the 2.5.50 Changelog that Linus posted:
>
> Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>:
> ...
> o make cardbus PCI enable earlier
>
> I'm willing to submit a patch, but I think Dave has to make the call whether
> it should be backed out entirely, or moved after pci_assign_resource().
> I certainly don't understand the code *or* PCI well enough to decide between
> those two option...

It's my understanding that pci_enable_device() *must* be called
before we fiddle with dev->resource, dev->irq and the like.

                Dave

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