Re: sym53c875: reading /proc causes SCSI parity error

From: Gérard Roudier (groudier@free.fr)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 14:51:01 EST


On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: Gérard Roudier <groudier@free.fr>
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:14:52 +0100 (CET)
>
> This is a known issue that had been discussed in time, but no fix had been
> considered worth to be applied by PCI et co maintainers.
>
> Why not just put some bitmap pointer into the pci device
> struct. If it is non-NULL, it specifies PCI config space
> areas which have side-effects.

Or a simple offset beyond which reading data isn't desirable for whatever
reasons.

  Gérard.

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