[PATCH v2 07/27] PCI: Add software-emulated host bridge

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Jan 28 15:18:17 EST 2013


On Monday 28 January 2013, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de>
> 
> [Thomas Petazzoni:
>  - Simplify capabilities handling.
>  - Move to a separate file.
>  - Fix mask used when writing a 4 bytes value.]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Not even a description why this is needed?

This patch (together with patch 8) seems like the most controversial
one of the series, so you should better provide a really good reason
why we would emulate something in software rather than using whatever
hardware is there.

	Arnd



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