Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:42:18 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25 new perfmon kernel patch + libpfm + pfmon available |
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:51:39 +0200 "stephane eranian" <eranian@googlemail.com> wrote:
> If I recall, AMD said that this special initialization would > eventually migrate into the core kernel. The pci_read() may be there > because it was not exported by the kernel (this particular code lives > in a kernel module).
... yet your patch adds an EXPORT_SYMBOL() just to make this specific function possible. Weird.
I find it hard to believe that there would be no code in the kernel to read or write config space of a device you have..... :) In fact I bet 80% of the drivers in the tree use it.
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