[openib-general] Re: mthca and LinuxBIOS

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:38:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Hmm.. This looks half-way sane, but too ugly for words.
> 
> I'd much rather see that when we detect a 64-bit resource, we always mark 
> the next resource as being reserved some way, and then we just make 
> pci_update_resource() ignore such reserved resources.
> 
> The
> 
> 		if((resno & 1)==1) {
> 			/* check if previous reg is 64 mem */
> 			..
> 
> stuff is really too ugly.

Yeah, that's not nice.

But what's the real problem we are trying to fix here?  I seem to have
missed that in the email thread somehow.

> Greg? Ivan?

Ivan's the pci resource guru, any thoughts as to how to do this in a
nicer way?

thanks,

greg k-h