lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2000]   [Dec]   [9]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Or is there borked hardware out there that require drivers to say
> > "This cacheline size must be xxx bytes, anything else will break" ?
> If there is surely the driver can override it again before enabling the
> master bit or talking to the device ?

The pdev_enable_device() stuff is marked __init, so done once at boottime.
So yes, a driver could then fix up during initialisation if necessary.
I was curious whether there are any known cases, or can the stuff
in the existing drivers be nuked if/when x86 calls pdev_enable_device().

Davej.

--
| Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~davej
| SuSE Labs

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 12:52    [W:0.438 / U:0.088 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site