Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driveropt-in

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:15:39 +0300
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:45:55PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:19:55AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Matthew, with Arjan's patch, is anything that currently works now
> > > broken?  Why do you feel it is somehow "wrong"?
> > 
> > lspci is broken.  It used to be able to access extended config
> > space, and now can't unless it is patched to know about the sysfs
> > flag to enable it.
> 
> There is also likely damage to Xorg for the very same reason.
>

Xorg doesn't do pci express ..
(newer ones actually have gotten out of the "do the PCI layer ourselves" business entirely)

> Ivan.


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