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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/6] Introduce pci_(request|release)_(mem|io)_regions
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 09:44:00AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> The first patch in this series introduces the following 4 helper functions to
> the PCI core:
>
> * pci_request_mem_regions()
> * pci_request_io_regions()
> * pci_release_mem_regions()
> * pci_release_io_regions()
>
> which encapsulate the request and release of a PCI device's memory or I/O
> bars.
>
> The subsequent patches convert the drivers, which use the
> pci_request_selected_regions(pdev,
> pci_select_bars(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM), name);
> and similar pattern to use the new interface.
>
> This was suggested by Christoph Hellwig in
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2016-May/004570.html and
> tested on kernel v4.6 with NVMe.
>

Btw, as I've seen already Jeff applying the Intel Ethernet patch to his
tree, I think this should go via the PCI tree as the build dependency is
the PCI patch.

Thanks,
Johannes
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