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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] PCI legacy I/O port free driver
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
>
>
>>I encountered a problem that some PCI devices don't work on my system
>>which have huge number of PCI devices.
>
>
> Is that a large IA64 system?
>

Yes. My IA64 system can have maximum 128 PCI slots, but
currently many of devices on those slots don't work...

> [...]
>
> The basic concept looks good to me, but I would suggest you use
> the Linux bitmap functions (DECLARE_BITMAP(), set_bit, test_bit etc.)
> instead of open coding all that.
>
> And for the e1000 change - instead of adding a big switch with
> magic numbers that will likely bitrot it's better to use
> the driver_data field in pci_device_id for such device specific flags.
>

I see.
I will try to fix my patches based on your suggestion.

Thanks,
Kenji Kaneshige

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