Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V6 08/13] PCI: generic, thunder: update to use generic ECAM API | Date | Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:44:13 +0200 |
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On Monday 18 April 2016 15:03:51 Tomasz Nowicki wrote: > On 16.04.2016 16:36, Jayachandran C wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > >> On Saturday 16 April 2016 12:50:13 Jayachandran C wrote: > > The whole pci-thunder-*.c is to support thunder PCI quirks since the > > generic OF is handled by pci-host-common.c and generic ECAM is now > > separated - duplicating the whole file for ACPI will be bad. > > Yes, it would be too much code duplication. Also, we already know > drivers which need quirks. > > We really need to agree on best approach here. Here are requirements > which came up (please correct me if misunderstood sth): > > Arnd: > 1. Initial DT driver should be standalone [Arnd] > 2. No exported symbols [Arnd] > 3. Duplicate necessary code to ACPI framework.
Correct.
> JC: > 1. Adding linker section is wrong. > 2. Quirks should be exported (pci_thunder_ecam_ops), then no need for > adding linker section > 3. To much duplication to copy code into the ACPI framework. > > My opinion: > 1. I like linker section because it is easy to maintain and no need to > export symbols. > 2. We need more sophisticated algorithm for matching quirks (DMI is not > enough and not only for ThunderX drivers). Of course I am open to any > new suggestions.
Agreed.
> 3. To much duplication to copy code into the ACPI framework. > > Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Can you be more specific about what code actually would need to be duplicated? Anything besides the config space operations?
Arnd
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