[PATCH v5 1/4] pci: APM X-Gene PCIe controller driver

Bjorn Helgaas bhelgaas at google.com
Tue Mar 25 15:56:45 EDT 2014


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau at arm.com> wrote:

> ... I'm a bit baffled by pci_claim_resource()
> as it doesn't seem to be used by some architectures. Does it mean it
> is not needed unless you have some BIOS setting up resources for you
> and in that case you need to go and claim the resource?

Many architectures don't use pci_claim_resource() yet.  I'm trying to
unify this so all architectures do use it, but it's taking me a long
time to get this done.

Bjorn



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