Arjan van de Ven wrote:
I can see the point of having a sysfs attribute to enable MMCONF from
userspace, so
that userland diagnostics tools can turn it on if they really really want to.
(I'd make that printk a nice warning "application XYZ is enabling extended config
space for devize ABC" so
that if the box then crashes and burns, people know who/why and where to direct
their emails ;-)
We did something similar for "enable", it's maybe 10 lines of code or so.
I would assume lspci and friends would then only turn that on at explicit admin
request
Absolutely... I'm not asking to default it on, just asking for it to be
possible :)
Jeff
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