Re: pci-disable-decode-of-io-memory-during-bar-sizing.patch

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that's definitely a problem, and would be a firmware bug.  There's 
> no doubt that firmwares have had trouble with this in the past, but 
> given that Vista now relies on this stuff working, it's a lot more 
> likely to be reliable in current and future systems.

I agree. I think most of the big problems we had were basically with 
unreleased or very early systems.

But the per-device flag should "just fix it" regardless, and we can go 
forward assuming that things work, but without breaking those borderline 
systems.

			Linus
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