Re: [PATCH 02/04] PCI: use the MCFG table to properly access pcidevices (i386)

[Jeff Garzik]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:31:20PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Now that we have access to the whole MCFG table, let's properly use it
> > for all pci device accesses (as that's what it is there for, some boxes
> > don't put all the busses into one entry.)
> >
> > If, for some reason, the table is incorrect, we fallback to the "old
> > style" of mmconfig accesses, namely, we just assume the first entry in
> > the table is the one for us, and blindly use it.
>
>
> I think it would be better to set different bus->ops at probe
> time, not walk the table at runtime.

Makes sense to me...

	Jeff



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