[PATCH v7 1/6] pci: Introduce pci_register_io_range() helper function.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Apr 7 02:13:28 PDT 2014


On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 09:35 +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> Thanks for the summary, is really useful as I was recently looking
> into code in that
> area. One thing I was trying to understand is why ppc needs _IO_BASE
> at all rather
> than using the generic PCI_IOBASE? 

Perhaps because our code predates it ? :-) I haven't looked much into
the semantics of PCI_IOBASE yet...

Cheers,
Ben.





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