Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:33:06AM -0600, Brian King wrote:
> 
>>Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:05AM -0600, Brian King wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>If we've done a write to config space while the adapter was blocked,
>>>>>shouldn't we replay those accesses at this point?
>>>>
>>>>I did not think that was necessary.
>>>
>>>
>>>We have to do *something*.  We can't just throw away writes.
>>>
>>>I see a few options:
>>>
>>>- Log all pending writes to config space and replay the log when the
>>>  device is unblocked.
>>>- Fail writes to config space while the device is blocked.
>>>- Write to the saved config space and then blat the saved config space
>>>  back to the device upon unblocking.
>>
>>Here is an updated patch which will now fail writes to config space 
>>while the device is blocked. I have also fixed up the caching to return 
>>the correct data and tested it on both little endian and big endian 
>>machines.
> 
> 
> Applied, thanks.
> 
> greg k-h
> 

Resending this now that 2.6.13 has opened up.

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Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center