Re: State of the Linux PCI Subsystem for 2.6.23-rc8

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:18:50PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:22:35AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Greg KH wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:40:58PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
>>>>> Greg KH wrote:
>>>>>> Here's a summary of the current state of the Linux PCI subsystem, as 
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> 2.6.23-rc8.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If the information in here is incorrect, or anyone knows of any
>>>>>> outstanding issues not listed here, please let me know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> List of outstanding regressions from 2.6.22:
>>>>>> 	- none known.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> List of outstanding regressions from older kernel versions:
>>>>>> 	- none known.
>>>>>>   
>>>>> What about http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=119072400008538&w=2 ?
>>>> That's not a regression, right?  Tt's probably never worked for that
>>>> kind of box :)
>>>> I think the pci bus patches that are pending from Jeff Garzik should fix
>>>> up these issues.  They are in one of his trees, and in the -mm release,
>>>> if you are able to test those.
>>> jgarzik/misc-2.6.git#pciseg has my only outstanding PCI stuff, which is a 
>>> small x86[-64] PCI domain support patch.  Mostly unrelated to the thread 
>>> at hand, alas, even though it was touching that area.
>>>
>>> I need to a few changes required by Andi, who made several good points, 
>>> then the PCI domains thing should be ready for upstream.  I don't care 
>>> much who merges it, you, Andi or me.
>> I'll take it, as I guess it should go through me, Andi is going to have
>> enough merge issues for 2.6.24 :)
>> I'll add them to my tree later today.
>
> Please don't pull 'pciseg' just yet...  it needs the fixes Andi pointed 
> out, namely, it should be turned on by default in x86 / x86-64 platform 
> Kconfig, and have a boot-time method of disabling it.

Ok, let me know when you want me to pull it and I will.  Or just send me
the patches by email, that's much easier for me :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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