Re: [BK PATCH] PCI Express patches for 2.4.27-pre3

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:59:43AM +0530, Durairaj, Sundarapandian wrote:
> I think its important that we have this patch for 2.4 kernel as well, as
> it will enable the PCI express devices to access extended config space
> (above 256 bytes), where all Advance feature of PCI Express config
> registers resides.

That's not a good reason to add it to 2.4.  If people want access to
that advanced stuff, they can upgrade to 2.6.

By the way, are you working on using any of these advanced features yet?
I'm waiting until I actually have some hardware in my hands before I
do anything.

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