Re: [PATCH] OLPC: pci: fix up PCI stuff so that PCI_GOANY supports OLPC

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:29:14 -0400
> Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
> 
> > Previously, one would have to specifically choose CONFIG_OLPC and
> > CONFIG_PCI_GOOLPC in order to enable PCI_OLPC.  That doesn't really
> > work for distro kernels, so this patch allows one to choose
> > CONFIG_OLPC and CONFIG_PCI_GOANY in order to build in OLPC support in
> > a generic kernel (as requested by Robert Millan).
> > 
> > This also moves GOOLPC before GOANY in the menuconfig list.
> > 
> > Finally, make pci_access_init return early if we detect OLPC hardware.
> > There's no need to continue probing stuff, and pci_pcbios_init
> > specifically trashes our settings (we didn't run into that before
> > because PCI_GOANY wasn't supported).
> > 
> > It would be great if we could sneak this in for 2.6.26..  *cough*  :)
> > 
> 
> It looks harmless enough.
> 
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig    |   11 +++++------
> >  arch/x86/pci/init.c |    3 ++-
> >  arch/x86/pci/olpc.c |    5 +++--
> >  arch/x86/pci/pci.h  |    2 +-
> 
> But I never know whether arch/x86/pci is a Jesse thing or an Ingo
> thing.  Usual answer: it's an everyone thing and we all make a big mess ;)

So the Salomonic solution is: 

You pick it up and send it either to Jesse or x86@kernel.org :)

I put it into my urgent bucket just to be on the safe side.

Thanks,
	tglx