[PATCH v2 3/3] PCI: ARM: add support for generic PCI host controller

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Feb 18 14:13:05 EST 2014


On Tuesday 18 February 2014 11:45:42 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > Do we even need stable domain numbers? If we do, aliases sound fine.
> > A more complex method would be to sort them by MMIO window address
> > or perhaps by phandle.
> 
> PCI ordering has been a bane in the past on x86, so I think stable
> domain numbers is certainly desirable. Particularly since the domain
> number may be influenced by module load order  Alises followed by
> sorting by phandle sounds great to me.

Ok, makes sense. Let's make sure we come up with a stable numbering
enforced by DT then, and warn when it's not there (or refuse to
work even).

	Arnd



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