From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: "Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "Stefano Stabellini" <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
"jeremy@goop.org" <jeremy@goop.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"konrad.wilk@oracle.com" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use PCI interfaces to request IO and MEM resources on platform device.
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:10:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2C72FA020000780002BB58@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294750884.3831.5866.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
>>> On 11.01.11 at 14:01, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> The old way was correct circa 2.6.37-rc5 but broken in 2.6.37 final,
> there were a bunch of (reverts of) PCI resource changes in that window,
> If I had to make a guess I'd say it was something in there which did it.
Was it perhaps broken somewhere between -rc5 and -final, but
not in -final itself?
>> I'm mainly asking because if it really addresses some problem,
>> then unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/platform-pci/platform-pci.c
>> in -unstable should probably get updated too.
>
> Assuming the pci_* interfaces exist back as far as we care about for
> those drivers then I don't see why not to apply it.
I checked back to .5, where they exist; the question is - how far
back do we care?
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-11 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-11 11:50 Ian Campbell
2011-01-11 12:48 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2011-01-11 13:01 ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-11 14:10 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2011-01-11 14:18 ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-11 14:27 ` Jan Beulich
2011-01-11 14:33 ` Ian Campbell
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