On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Or is there borked hardware out there that require drivers to say
> > "This cacheline size must be xxx bytes, anything else will break" ?
> If there is surely the driver can override it again before enabling the
> master bit or talking to the device ?
The pdev_enable_device() stuff is marked __init, so done once at boottime.
So yes, a driver could then fix up during initialisation if necessary.
I was curious whether there are any known cases, or can the stuff
in the existing drivers be nuked if/when x86 calls pdev_enable_device().
Davej.
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