On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:54:53AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > Marcelo, feel free to tell me otherwise if you do not want
> > > this in the 2.4 tree. 
> 
> Is this code necessary for PCI-Express devices/busses to work properly?

afaik not. It's an enhancement to make config space access to them somewhat
faster, but they just work using the existing method.