From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, muli@il.ibm.com,
davej@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
hpa@zytor.com, bunk@kernel.org, linux-bugs@dell.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix x86 DMI checks for PCI quirks
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 06:56:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502115611.GA15645@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501042313.4ce14c0d@infradead.org>
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:23:13AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 21:54:27 -0500
> Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch moves the DMI tests into its own file, arch/x86/pci/dmi.c,
> > and invokes them via subsys_initcall() before pci_acpi_init(),
> > pci_legacy_init(), and pcibios_init() are called, which may rely upon
> > these tests having been executed.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> can we name this file something with "quirks" in it (dmi_quirks.c or
> so)? At least I tend to look for files named like that when searching
> for places that do specific hardware/machine based workarounds...
sure, the file name matters not much to me in this regard, and I can
see your point.
--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-02 2:54 Matt Domsch
2008-05-01 11:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-02 11:56 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2008-05-02 7:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-02 9:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-02 13:56 ` Matt Domsch
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