Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac4

Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org)
14 Jan 2003 10:06:06 +0100


On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:20, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> It is not, as you say; "obviously wrong". It is, in fact correct.
> If you think you will get, as previously stated, the current status
> by reading the status register of a device, while a posted-write
> is in-progress, the code is broken. There are warnings all over
> PCI device hardware specifications about this.

Can you point me to such a warning in the PCI2.1 or 2.2 spec please ?

Ben.

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