Gerard> The devices that appeared to be detected twice seem to be the
Gerard> ones that reside on secondary PCI BUSes. At the time we have
Gerard> had to look into this strange problem, we only had the Linux
Gerard> source to investigate and I didn't find anything wrong from
Gerard> that source that may explain the problem. I have accepted to
Gerard> handle this situation from the sym53c8xx driver in order to
Gerard> give user a chance to use faulty HP NetServers (the change is
Gerard> pretty small but certainly requires a good hacker to implement
Gerard> it at the right driver place). (the ncr53c8xx hasn't this
Gerard> change, but latest sym53c8xx-1.5f in kernel 2.3.22 has it). By
Gerard> the way, I also didn't find anything wrong in earlier
Gerard> sym53c8xx and ncr53c8xx driver sources that may cause such a
Gerard> double detection.
It is not a driver problem, but rather in the PCI detection code - all
PCI devices on the motherboard show up twice.
>> I know Martin Mares has some patches for this, but they are not yet
>> in the standard tree.
Gerard> May-be they should be backported to latest 2.2 kernel. This
Gerard> will avoid having to patch PCI device drivers in stable just
Gerard> for this problem.
I know he had a patch for 2.2 as well.
Jes
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