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| author | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2006-06-24 08:41:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2006-06-24 13:07:53 -0400 |
| commit | 816724e65c72a90a44fbad0ef0b59b186c85fa90 (patch) | |
| tree | 421fa29aedff988e392f92780637553e275d37a0 /Documentation/pci.txt | |
| parent | 70ac4385a13f78bc478f26d317511893741b05bd (diff) | |
| parent | d384ea691fe4ea8c2dd5b9b8d9042eb181776f18 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
fs/nfs/inode.c
fs/super.c
Fix conflicts between patch 'NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c' and patch
'VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/pci.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pci.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt index 66bbbf1d1ef..3242e5c1ee9 100644 --- a/Documentation/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/pci.txt @@ -213,9 +213,17 @@ have been remapped by the kernel. See Documentation/IO-mapping.txt for how to access device memory. - You still need to call request_region() for I/O regions and -request_mem_region() for memory regions to make sure nobody else is using the -same device. + The device driver needs to call pci_request_region() to make sure +no other device is already using the same resource. The driver is expected +to determine MMIO and IO Port resource availability _before_ calling +pci_enable_device(). Conversely, drivers should call pci_release_region() +_after_ calling pci_disable_device(). The idea is to prevent two devices +colliding on the same address range. + +Generic flavors of pci_request_region() are request_mem_region() +(for MMIO ranges) and request_region() (for IO Port ranges). +Use these for address resources that are not described by "normal" PCI +interfaces (e.g. BAR). All interrupt handlers should be registered with SA_SHIRQ and use the devid to map IRQs to devices (remember that all PCI interrupts are shared). |