[PATCH v9 02/12] PCI: OF: Parse and map the IRQ when adding the PCI device.

Wei Yang weiyang at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Aug 18 18:44:01 PDT 2014


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 03:25:50PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>...
>> Well, it will become necessary as old code gets dismantled and converted towards
>> this patchset. To give you an example that I'm familiar with, for arch/arm the
>> host bridge drivers have moved into drivers/pci/host, but they still depend/use
>> the bios32 infrastructure that takes care of setting up the irq. When they switch
>> to my version they would have to go and debug the "irq not being assigned" issue
>> and it is quite likely that some of the people doing the conversion will complain
>> about my code rather than understanding the issue. What I'm trying to do is to
>> make switching to my patchset as painless as possible, with a cleanup to remove
>> redundant operations coming after the switchover.
>
>While the goal is fine, until we see a common pattern for what needs to
>go into pcibios_add_device() I think we should have an arm64-specific
>implementation (and probably an arm32 specific one as well). I can see
>powerpc uses it for setting the DMA ops. Would we have a similar need on
>arm64 to choose between coherent and non-coherent dma_ops?

Liviu,

I have the same feeling with Catalin. An arm64-specific implementation of
pcibios_add_device() would be better.

No more other concerns from my side.

>
>Also at some point we'll get ACPI support, so I'm not sure what we do
>with assigning the dev->irq here but definitely of_* functions won't
>work.
>
>-- 
>Catalin

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