Re: pci-disable-decode-of-io-memory-during-bar-sizing.patch

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Hello!

> > Maybe we should do all bus scanning with conf1 and then try if
> > MMCONFIG returns the same values?
> 
> that is already in the code today but not nearly enough; there's a ton
> of cases where it's "touch mmconfig and the box is dead"...

Argh.  However I still do not think it is an acceptable reason for breaking
all userspace access to the extended config space.

At the very least, there should be a sysfs toggle to enable MMCONFIG if
root really wishes that (maybe for a particular device, as the drivers
would do).

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares                          <[email protected]>   http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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