Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 (nvidia breakage)
From: Terence Ripperda
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 12:25:21 EST
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:26:42AM -0600, bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx wrote:
> To be pedantically clear about this, looking at pci_dev->irq before
> calling pci_enable_device() is *guaranteed* to fail, regardless of
> what the BIOS does. So nvidia users will have to use "pci=routeirq"
> until there's a new version of the nvidia driver.
ah, ok. thanks for clarifying.
> I'm assuming your patch makes the driver call pci_enable_device()
> before using either irq or BAR information. That's the best way
> to future-proof the driver.
yes, that's exactly what we've done.
Thanks,
Terence
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