Re: [PATCH] add PCI ROMs to sysfs

[Jesse Barnes]

On Monday, August 2, 2004 7:32 pm, Jon Smirl wrote:
> My original version have this in it:
>
> /* assign the ROM an address if it doesn't have one */
> if (r->parent == NULL)
>    pci_assign_resource(dev->pdev, PCI_ROM_RESOURCE);
>
>
> if (r->parent) {
>     release_resource(r);
>     r->flags &= ~PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE;
>     r->end -= r->start;
>     r->start = 0;
> }
>
> I was running this code on both 2.4/2.6 but I may have needed to do
> this for 2.4. Is it consistent to have pci_assign_resource() and then
> use release_resource()?
>
> My i875P AGP controller has a ROM on it as well as my two video cards.

So it seems there's some redundancy here--some platforms will map the ROMs at 
discovery time while on others we have to map them explicitly?  Which should 
we count on?  I was assuming the former in the last patch I posted, and would 
like to keep it that way unless there's some reason not to.

Thanks,
Jesse
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