pciaccess clean up

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 10:53:06 PST 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:52 -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:

> This is by design.  In the pre-PCI-rework discussions we decided that it
> was pure evil for the X server to muck about with PCI device / bus
> enables.  I thought that the int10 boot-strap was still enabled, though.

Well, it has to go somewhere.  In the ideal world I have kernel drivers
for everything and that handles enabling.  Instead...

So until I get an ideal world, I'd like that the server enable my PCI
devices please.  Because what we've got right now, where trying to post
a secondary card wedges the machine, is clearly crap.

- ajax
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