On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 22:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > I was just testing a slightly different one that appear to fix the
> > problem :
> ...
> > + rom_addr = region.start | (res->flags & PCI_REGION_FLAG_MASK);
>
> I worry about this one. It's not really correct. The low en bits are
> "reserved", and while I don't know whether writing zero is always correct,
> I do know that just writing the low 4 bits with the old value is a bit
> strange. And the flags don't save the other bits.
>
> So I'd prefer either my previous diff, or one that just re-reads the bits
> entirely, something like the appended..
Can you keep the part of my patch that adds error checking on the result
of pci_assign_resource() ?
> What does the PCI spec say about the reserved bits? Do we have to save
> them?
I didn't see anything special about them, but I may have missed it.
Ben.
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