Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/PCI: don't use native Broadcom CNB20LE driver when ACPI is available

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On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:12:24 -0700
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> The broadcom_bus.c quirk was written (without benefit of documentation) to
> support PCI hotplug on an old system that doesn't have ACPI.  As such, we
> should only use it when the system doesn't have ACPI.
> 
> If the system does have ACPI and we need the host bridge description, we
> should get it from the ACPI _CRS method.  On machines older than 2008, we
> currently ignore _CRS, but that doesn't mean we should use broadcom_bus.c.
> It means we should either (a) do what we've done in the past and assume
> everything in the PCI gap is routed to bus 0 (so hotplug may not work),
> or (b) arrange to use _CRS.  This patch does (a).
> 
> Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665109
> Acked-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx>
> ---

Applied these two, thanks.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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