Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Why did you choose to limit VPD access by using PCI quirks: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=99cb233d60cbe644203f19938c729ea2bb004d70 > > Rather than controlling size in the device driver which is what my > patches (which seem to have been ignored) did: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122393195716363&w=2 > > The problem with the quirk scheme is that it means putting more > per device settings in a location farther away in the source code > than the underlying device driver. The limit needs to be set in quirks because VPD I/O beyond that limit causes those devices to stop responding. If I understand correctly, you're only reducing the limit as an optimisation. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
