Re: PCI bookkeeping

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Oct 21 2000 - 10:22:55 EDT

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Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> [...] Later on, various
> drivers use code like pcibios_read_config_byte()
> to query the IRQ value for use during setup of
> their interrupt handlers.

Unless there is a very special reason, that's a driver bug. Please
define "various drivers" so we can fix them :)

> I'm wondering if our Official Approach is to always
> query the in-kernel data structures[...]?

Correct.

Jeff

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