Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driveropt-in

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jan 14 2008 - 00:23:20 EST




On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > As someone gently pointed out to me, you are in a position to know this,
> > so I probably am wrong.
>
> I suspect Arjan is wrong. It might be some Intel agenda but I still see
> fairly new driver reference code that is hardcoding port accesses even
> when designed for Redmond products.

Agreed. I suspect that the likelihood of conf1 accesses going away in the
next five years is slim to none.

Linus
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