On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:48:14 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 15:54 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:03 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > What about printing "No PCI ROM detected" ? I like having that info when
> > > getting user reports, but I agree that a less worrying message would
> > > be good.
> >
> > Ok, how about this then?  It changes the printks in both drivers to 
> > KERN_INFO
> > and describes the situation a bit more accurately.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jesse
> >
> > P.S. Jon, I think the pci_map_rom code is buggy--if the option ROM signature
> > is missing or indicates that there's no ROM, the routine still returns a
> > valid pointer making the caller thing it succeeded.  If we fix that up we 
> > can
> > fix up the callers.
> 
> No, pci_map_rom shouldn't test the signature IMHO. While PCI ROMs should
> have the signature to be recognized as containing valid firmware images
> on x86 BIOSes an OF, it's just a convention on these platforms, and I
> would rather let people put whatever they want in those ROMs and still
> let them map it...
> 

pci_map_rom will return a pointer to any ROM it finds. It the
signature is invalid the size returned will be zero. Is this ok or do
we want it to do something different?

-- 
Jon Smirl
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