[PATCH v3 4/4] PCI: mediatek-gen3: Add Airoha EN7581 support

Bjorn Helgaas helgaas at kernel.org
Tue Jul 2 09:34:39 PDT 2024


On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 11:12:21AM +0200, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 03:51:54PM +0200, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > > Introduce support for Airoha EN7581 PCIe controller to mediatek-gen3
> > > PCIe controller driver.
> > 
> > > +/* PCIe reset line delay in ms */
> > > +#define PCIE_RESET_TIME_MS		100
> > 
> > Is this something required by the PCIe base spec, or is it specific to
> > EN7581?  Either way it would be nice to have a citation to the spec
> > (revision and section number).  If it's generic to PCIe, it should be
> > in drivers/pci/pci.h so other drivers can use the same thing.
> 
> It is just the time needed by the EN7581 reset controller to
> complete the operation, it is not something PCIe generic (it is
> something just related to EN7581 SoC).  Do you think we should move
> it in EN7581 reset controller codebase?

I have no opinion about moving it.  But it sounds like maybe it should
have a less generic name so it doesn't look like a generic PCIe thing.
And also a spec citation would be helpful for future maintenance.



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