[PATCH v2 2/7] kernel/resource: move and rename IORESOURCE_MEM_DRIVER_MANAGED
David Hildenbrand
david at redhat.com
Tue Sep 15 03:37:09 EDT 2020
On 15.09.20 04:20, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:10:07PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> IORESOURCE_MEM_DRIVER_MANAGED currently uses an unused PnP bit, which is
>> always set to 0 by hardware. This is far from beautiful (and confusing),
>> and the bit only applies to SYSRAM. So let's move it out of the
>> bus-specific (PnP) defined bits.
>>
>> We'll add another SYSRAM specific bit soon. If we ever need more bits for
>> other purposes, we can steal some from "desc", or reshuffle/regroup what we
>> have.
>
> I think you make this definition because we use IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_RAM for
> hotpluged memory? So we make them all in IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_XXX family?
Yeah, to specify based on the extended MEM type SYSRAM. Because it
really only applies to that.
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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