[PATCHv5 08/11] ARM: pci: add ->add_bus() and ->remove_bus() hooks to hw_pci

[Jason Cooper]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:13:05AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Thierry Reding,
> 
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:57:00 -0700, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:52:44PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > > Some PCI drivers may need to adjust the pci_bus structure after it has
> > > been allocated by the Linux PCI core. The PCI core allows
> > > architectures to implement the pcibios_add_bus() and
> > > pcibios_remove_bus() for this purpose. This commit therefore extends
> > > the hw_pci and pci_sys_data structures of the ARM PCI core to allow
> > > PCI drivers to register ->add_bus() and ->remove_bus() in hw_pci,
> > > which will get called when a bus is added or removed from the system.
> > > 
> > > This will be used for example by the Marvell PCIe driver to connect a
> > > particular PCI bus with its corresponding MSI chip to handle Message
> > > Signaled Interrupts.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/include/asm/mach/pci.h |  4 ++++
> > >  arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c        | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Hi Russell,
> > 
> > Can we have your Acked-by on this patch so that it can be moved to a
> > stable branch along with some of the other patches in this branch that
> > both Marvell and Tegra PCIe drivers need?
> 
> I've pinged Russell a few times about this patch already, but haven't
> received feedback from him. Do you think I can just go ahead and submit
> the patch to Russell's patch system, after fixing the minor nits you
> mentioned?

When you do that, please ask Russell to place it in a publicly
accessible, stable topic branch for us to base off of.

thx,

Jason.