Re: [PATCH 4/4] ia64: Fix resource assignment for root busses
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Jun 17 2009 - 16:59:21 EST
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:56:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > ia64 was assigning resources to root busses after allocations had
> > been made for child busses. Calling pcibios_setup_root_windows() from
> > pcibios_fixup_bus() solves this problem by assigning the resources to
> > the root bus before child busses are scanned.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@xxxxxx>
>
> So I assume this "Tested-by:" means that Andrew confirmed that this
> actually fixes the nesting? I wasn't cc'd on that, so I'm just checking..
Yes, he says it fixes the nesting problem, and as a result hotplug now works.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/