Re: [PATCH] altix: export sn_pcidev_info_get
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- To: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] altix: export sn_pcidev_info_get
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:55:12 +0000
- Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Maule <maule@xxxxxxx>, akpm@xxxxxxxx, linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:23:12AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Point is that there are cases where tuning requires you to know what
> PCI bridge is below you in order to get the best performance out of a
> card. One can keep a PCI ID blacklist to handle tuning of the PCI
> bridge itself, but it can't handle things that needs to be tuned
> by setting the PCI device's own registers.
>
> Having a generic API to export this information would be a good thing
> IMHO.
So please submit a patch to add querying/tuning pci bridges. And please
make it _GPL exports so people don't accidentally use it in their illegal
drivers.
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