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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 3/5] PCI: st: Provide support for the sti PCIe controller
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On Saturday 11 April 2015 12:17:57 Paul Bolle wrote:
> Something I didn't spot in my first look at this patch.
>
> On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 11:12 +0200, Gabriel FERNANDEZ wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/pci/host/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/host/Kconfig
> >
> > +config PCI_ST
> > + bool "ST PCIe controller"
> > + depends on ARCH_STI || (ARM && COMPILE_TEST)
> > + select PCIE_DW
> > + help
> > + Enable PCIe controller support on ST Socs. This controller is based
> > + on Designware hardware and therefore the driver re-uses the
> > + Designware core functions to implement the driver.
>
> You can't have ARCH_STI without ARM, so ARM will always be set if this
> driver is enabled. Correct?

Right, though the ARM dependency could soon be dropped, once the PCIE_DW
driver can use generic infrastructure in the few places it relies on
ARM specific code today.

> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pci-st.c
>
> > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM)) {
> > + /*
> > + * We have to hook the abort handler so that we can intercept
> > + * bus errors when doing config read/write that return UR,
> > + * which is flagged up as a bus error
> > + */
> > + hook_fault_code(16+6, st_pcie_abort_handler, SIGBUS, 0,
> > + "imprecise external abort");
> > + }
>
> So, unless I'm missing something obvious here, IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM)
> will always evaluate to 1. Can't that test be dropped?

I would leave it in, as it's quite likely to get reused with ARM64 at some
point in the future (no, I don't know anything about ST's product plans,
but everybody seems to be doing this).

Arnd


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