On Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:12 am Timothy S. Nelson wrote: > This patch makes the ROM reading code return an error to user space if > the size of the ROM read is equal to 0. > > The patch also emits dmesg-type warnings if the contents of the ROM are > invalid, and documents the effects of the "enable" file on ROM reading. > > The Acked-by indicates that Alex indicated to Timothy by private e-mail > that his contribution to the patch below is released under the appropriate > license. > > Kernel version: 2.6.27 > Signed-off-by: Timothy S. Nelson <wayland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Alex Villacis-Lasso <a_villacis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for being so tenacious here Timothy. I applied this to my for-linus branch since I've heard several reports of people hitting this (I think in some cases X tries to read the rom before a driver is bound, which causes problems like you describe). I updated the changelog and some of the documentation text a little though; hope it still makes sense to you. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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
