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SubjectRe: RFC: export constants from shpc.h?
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:50:04AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:54:49 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > I've implemented an shpc controller emulator
> > in qemu, so I needed a bunch of constants
> > similar to what drivers/pci/hotplug/shpc.h has.
> >
> > Any objections to adding a PCI_SHPC_XXXX prefix
> > so these and moving them to pci_regs.h?
> > PCI utilities can then use them from /usr/include/linux.
> >
> > One can see how a utility that looks at slot LED and MRL
> > states might be useful
> > (we'd need to export the base offset through sysfs
> > to make it possible to use such in parallel with shpc).
>
> pci_regs.h is generally reserved for architected regs,
> but maybe a
> separate header file makes sense. Or just patch libpciaccess or
> pci-utils with your tool.
>
> --
> Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

Fair enough, but out of curiosity,
could you pls clarify what is meant by 'architected'?
SHPC is a PCI-SIG spec after all, not a vecor-specific interface...




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