On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:25:46AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> I'll defer to Jeff's judgement here. If the device is broken such that
> it does not know to return the correct class, then we need to be able to
> have a "quirk" table in the userspace tools to handle the list of
> devices that are broken in that way.
I think Jeff is right on this particular point -- better to have this
worked around in the userspace tool than in the kernel.
> For config items, we don't want to modify them in any way, we just want
> to pass-through the data direct from the device. Look at the sysfs and
> proc files for pci config spaces. They are returning binary data stored
> in the device directly. We do not want to have to start modifying that
> data directly just to handle messed up devices like this.
Nobody's talking about changing the raw pci data. What we're talking
about is changing the value read out of
$ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:00.0/class
0x060000
We do tweak at least some of the other similar values (vendor, for sure)
to work around bugs; not sure we have an example for changing the class
value yet.
pciutils knows that the kernel has potentially fixed up the values in
the individual files, and to trust those over the raw data.
--
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operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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