Re: small PCI probe patch for odd 64 bit BARs

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Nov 11 2004 - 13:55:20 EST


On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:48:09PM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> The current PCI probe code breaks for 64 bit BARs that do not decode a
> full 64 bits. Example:
>
> We have a device that uses a 64 bit BAR. When you write all Fs to the
> BARs, you get:
>
> 000000ff ffff0000
>
> It wants 64k, in the first TB of RAM. The current code totally borks on
> this.
>
> Simple patch against 2.6.9:

As Andrew pointed out, you didn't even compile test this patch, not nice.

thanks,

greg k-h
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