Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use PCI interfaces to request IO and MEM resources on platform device.

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Tue Jan 11 2011 - 09:27:49 EST


>>> On 11.01.11 at 15:18, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> I'm mainly asking because if it really addresses some problem,
>> >> then unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/platform-pci/platform-pci.c
>> >> in -unstable should probably get updated too.
>> >
>> > Assuming the pci_* interfaces exist back as far as we care about for
>> > those drivers then I don't see why not to apply it.
>>
>> I checked back to .5, where they exist; the question is - how far
>> back do we care?
>
> You mean 2.6.5? That's old enough to be the cut off IMHO.
>
> I'm not sure how much actual use these drivers get these days though.

We're building ours from that code.

Are you going to submit this for -unstable then too, or are you
expecting me to do so?

Jan

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