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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 3/9] pci: Introduce pci_register_io_range() helper function.
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 01:30:31PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 July 2014 21:45:09 Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 01 July 2014 19:43:28 Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > >
> > > This still conflicts with the other allocator you have in patch 9
> > > for pci_remap_iospace: nothing guarantees that the mapping is the
> > > same for both.
> > >
> > > Also, this is a completely pointless exercise at this moment, because
> > > nobody cares about the result of pci_address_to_pio on architectures
> > > that don't already provide this function. If we ever get a proper
> > > Open Firmware implementation that wants to put hardcoded PCI devices
> > > into DT, we can add an implementation, but for now this seems overkill.
> > >
> > > The allocator in pci_register_io_range seems reasonable, why not merge
> > > this function with pci_remap_iospace() as I have asked you multiple
> > > times before? Just make it return the io_offset so the caller can
> > > put that into the PCI host resources.
> >
> > Hi Arnd,
> >
> > While I agree with you that at some moment the allocators were inconsistent
> > wrt each other, for this version I would respectfully disagree on this.
> > The allocator in pci_register_io_range() only makes sure that the ranges
> > are not overlapping, it doesn't do any mapping whatsoever, while
> > pci_remap_iospace() does only an ioremap_page_range(). The idea is that
> > you get the offset out of pci_address_to_pio() and apply it to
> > pci_remap_iospace().
>
> Ok, got it now, I'm sorry I didn't read this properly at first.
>
> Your solution looks correct to me, just using different
> tradeoffs to what I was expecting: You get a working pci_address_to_pio()
> function, which is probably never needed, but in turn you need to
> keep the state of each host bridge in a global list.

Just a reminder that with my patchset I *do* start using pci_address_to_pio()
in order to correctly parse the IO ranges from DT.

Best regards,
Liviu

>
> Arnd
>
>

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