* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:

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> As for the observation about probing the pci space early during the 
> bootup, we call vsmp_init() much earlier during the bootup, which 
> calls is_vsmp_box(), does the pci probing and caches the result in the 
> flag, as you suggest. So the call in the above diff context does not 
> access the pci config space as is.

ah, i see - indeed - the trick with -1 :-)

my point remains though: if you initialize VSMP in a separate function 
anyway then please move this PCI config space access from is_vsmp_box() 
into vsmp_init() and keep a pure flag return is_vsmp_box(). That way 
there can be no question at all whether there are (or can be) any 
side-effects of that function.

	Ingo
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