Re: [patch 2/5] fakephp: allocate PCI resources before adding the device

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On Friday, January 9, 2009 12:26 pm akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For PCI devices, pci_bus_assign_resources() must be called to set up the
> pci_device->resource array before pci_bus_add_devices() can be called,
> else attempts to load drivers results in BAR collision errors where there
> are none.  This is not done in fakephp, so devices can be "unplugged" but
> scanning the parent bus won't bring the devices back due to resource
> unallocation.
>
> Move the pci_bus_add_device-calling logic into pci_rescan_bus and preface
> it with a call to pci_bus_assign_resources so that we only have to
> (re)allocate resources once per bus where a new device is found.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't think we reached a consensus on this one; Alex is the de-facto owner 
of this code.

I'd like to fix this regression if possible; Alex?

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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