[RFC PATCH 2/2] arm: pcibios: move to generic PCI domains

Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com
Thu Oct 30 09:21:17 PDT 2014


On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:27:13PM +0000, Yijing Wang wrote:
> On 2014/10/30 19:44, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > Most if not all ARM PCI host controller device drivers either ignore the
> > domain field in the pci_sys_data structure or just increment it every
> > time a host controller is probed, using it as a domain counter.
> > 
> > Therefore, instead of relying on pci_sys_data to stash the domain number
> > in a standard location, ARM pcibios code can be moved to the newly
> > introduced generic PCI domains code, implemented in commits:
> > 
> > commit 41e5c0f81d3e676d671d96a0a1fafb27abfbd9
> > ("of/pci: Add pci_get_new_domain_nr() and of_get_pci_domain_nr()")
> > 
> > commit 670ba0c8883b576d0aec28bd7a838358a4be1
> > ("PCI: Add generic domain handling")
> > 
> > In order to assign a domain number dynamically, the ARM pcibios defines
> > the function, called by core PCI code:
> > 
> > void pci_bus_assign_domain_nr(...)
> > 
> > that relies on a DT property to define the domain number or falls back to
> > a counter; its usage replaces the current domain assignment code in PCI
> > host controllers present in the kernel.
> 
> Nice clean up.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing at huawei.com>

Thank you Yijing !
Lorenzo



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