ixgbe: Proposed PARCH PCIE legacy I/O port free intel 10Gb NIC driver
authorgouji-new <gouji.masayuki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 6 May 2009 10:44:45 +0000 (10:44 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 6 May 2009 22:33:47 +0000 (15:33 -0700)
commit9ce77666da48513058e330634a766d4752324f8e
tree6d4d005c81d751a93ebd9a0447da63e6b43251fb
parent3044b8d1ff8c05237652a692fb572a34e4d70146
ixgbe: Proposed PARCH PCIE legacy I/O port free intel 10Gb NIC driver

Traditionally Intel based NIC drivers request I/O port even though it
doesn't need that really.

Intel PCIE 10Gb driver (ixgbe) also requests I/O port but it doesn't
need it either.

This is a little inconvenient situation because sometimes we have to
handle those cards on the slots where any I/O space is not attached.

So we made pach which makes ixgbe driver legacy I/O port free.

Signed-off-by: Masayuki Gouji <gouji.masayuki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c