From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030297AbWGFOmm (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:42:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030298AbWGFOml (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:42:41 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:12489 "EHLO khc.piap.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030297AbWGFOml (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:42:41 -0400 To: Robert Hancock Cc: earthquake.de@freenet.de, linux-kernel Subject: Re: How to reset pci device References: <1152172405.112420.80940@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <44AD1D81.9000907@shaw.ca> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:42:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: <44AD1D81.9000907@shaw.ca> (Robert Hancock's message of "Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:26:09 -0600") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Hancock writes: > If you mean issuing a reset to that specific device, there is no > portable way to do this, if there is any way at all. In most cases > it's likely impossible to reset just one device on the PCI bus. It's different if you're writing a driver for such device - it doesn't have to be "portable", and many (all?) PCI glue chips can be reset (and can reset the rest of stuff on the card) by writing to a special (bit) register. -- Krzysztof Halasa