On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > about why they recommend it be disabled? Presumably they'd like to > have the EDAC functionality (maybe on Windows?), so I would think that > they'd only recommend disabling the device if it were broken or there > were some other avenue for supporting EDAC. Or if whatever Windows does to PCI devices by default on suspend/resume is not appropriate for the overflow device... etc. All I know is that this idiotic hiding of the overflow device breaks EDAC functionality on all of my perfectly EDAC'able D875PBZ unless I manually patch the kernel to unhide it. And since I have been running these boards with EDAC active using local hacks to deal with the overflow device for *years* (well before EDAC was even merged in mainline, and was still called bluesmoke), I know for sure it is safe on this board. In fact, do we have any reports of misbehaviour when one unhides the device? Because I only know of sucess cases... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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
