[PATCH 4/5 v4] Realview PCIX support - add main support module code

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Oct 12 13:22:05 EDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:32:20AM +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Russell King - ARM Linux [mailto:linux at arm.linux.org.uk]
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5 v4] Realview PCIX support - add main support
> > module code
> 
> Russell said:
> 
> > I thought one of my previous review points on this was that it was
> > completely unsafe to match only on dev->device, rather than on both
> > dev->device and dev->vendor.  Device IDs are allocated by individual
> > vendors and are meaningless without also checking the vendor ID.
> 
> And
> 
> > And I thought we'd got to the point where we had a swizzle here.
> 
> The patch I sent to the list was indeed an old version. However the reason
> is that despite the testing we did and your suggested changes the swizzle
> based code still does not fully work. So I thought it best to post working
> code.
> 
> I'm still waiting for a response from you on the last round of test results
> I sent.

I don't have a response at the moment (and it's going to be a while
as I'm going to be using the next few days to catch up with quite a
backlog of email.)  I've also lost all the context from March - which
was an absolute necessity to ensure the survival of the ARM Linux in
the mainline kernel sources.



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