On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 22:35 -0700, Pravin Bathija wrote:
> Thanks Stefan. The whole intention of the patch/hack (or whatever one
> might call it :) ) was to avoid rogue drivers from setting
> pci_cache_line_size to non-zero value even though the underlying
> hardware doesn't support MRM calls. Nonetheless this approach works
> only if the drivers use the kernel API for PCI config space access
> provided by the powerpc platform driver.
> 
Do you know many drivers that do config space accesses without using
the config space accessors ?

Such drivers should be banned to oblivion.

Cheers,
Ben.

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