[PATCH v2 03/18] PCI: designware: Configuration space should be specified in 'reg'

[Jingoo Han]

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:15 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> On Friday 30 May 2014 07:45 PM, Karicheri, Muralidharan wrote:
> >> On 5/29/2014 2:38 AM, ABRAHAM, KISHON VIJAY wrote:
> >>> The configuration address space has so far been specified in *ranges*,
> >>> however it should be specified in *reg* making it a platform MEM resource.
> >>> Hence used 'platform_get_resource_*' API to get configuration address
> >>> space in the designware driver.
> >>>
> >>> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com>
> >>> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> >>> Cc: Mohit Kumar <mohit.kumar at st.com>
> >>> Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han at samsung.com>
> >>> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> >>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon at ti.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>   .../devicetree/bindings/pci/designware-pcie.txt    |    1 +
> >>>   drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c                 |   17 +++++++++++++++--
> >>>   2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

[...]

> >>> +	cfg_res = platform_get_resource_byname(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, "config");
> >>> +	if (cfg_res) {
> >>> +		pp->config.cfg0_size = resource_size(cfg_res)/2;
> >>> +		pp->config.cfg1_size = resource_size(cfg_res)/2;
> >>> +		pp->cfg0_base = cfg_res->start;
> >>> +		pp->cfg1_base = cfg_res->start + pp->config.cfg0_size;
> >>> +	} else {
> >>> +		dev_err(pp->dev, "missing *config* reg space\n");
> >> This should return error -EINVAL.
> 
> Just read the other thread and Grant Likely suggested the host controller
> driver should be backward compatible [1]. So we can't return -EINVAL here.
> So I'd assume this patch is fine as is? Arnd? Jingoo?

Yes, you're right. The driver should keep backward compatibility for
legacy DT binding. However, after enough time goes by, these legacy
DT handling can be removed.

Best regards,
Jingoo Han

> 
> [1] -> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/124
> 
> Thanks
> Kishon