Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

From: Martin Mares
Date: Sat Dec 22 2007 - 15:05:45 EST


Hello!

> Just make it so. The name is fine, the concept is unavoidable. The people
> who complain are whiners that haven't ever had to deal with the fact that
> there are broken machines around.

I complain as well as the maintainer of the pciutils. Breaking all userspace
accesses to extended configuration space just because there is a couple
of chipsets which have MMCONFIG messed up is completely unacceptable.

Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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