svn commit: r284078 - head/sys/dev/pci

[Marcel Moolenaar]

> On Jun 6, 2015, at 9:03 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, June 06, 2015 03:51:12 PM Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> Author: marcel
>> Date: Sat Jun  6 15:51:11 2015
>> New Revision: 284078
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/284078
>> 
>> Log:
>>  Don't return -10000 as the probe priority. That's lower than what
>>  BUS_PROBE_HOOVER is. Drivers like proto(4), when compiled into the
>>  kernel or preloaded, will render your system useless by virtue of
>>  attaching to your PCI busses.
>> 
>>  Return BUS_PROBE_GENERIC instead. It's just the next priority up
>>  from BUS_PROBE_HOOVER. No other meaning has been give to its use.
>>  While BUS_PROBE_DEFAULT seems like a better candidate, it's hard
>>  not to think that there must be some reason why these drivers
>>  return -10000 in the first place.
> 
> BUS_PROBE_DEFAULT would conflict with other drivers that are supposed to
> override these, such as acpi_pcib_pci which should override pci_pci
> for PCI-PCI bridges in the ACPI namespace.  That driver currently hardcodes
> -1000 itself. :-/  Then there's pcibios_pcib_probe for the $PIR PCI-PCI
> bridge driver for when ACPI isn't present.  It returns -2000.  The
> MPTable PCI-PCI bridge driver returns -1000 like ACPI.

So that means we have a regression. Do you want me to back out
or should we just move forward and fix those too.

An alternative is to change BUS_PROBE_HOOVER to -100000 and be
done with it.

Thoughts?

--
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel at xcllnt.net



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