linux-kernel - Re: [patch] pci: revert "PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing"

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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:18:53 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>, pm@...ian.org
Subject: Re: [patch] pci: revert "PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing"


> Anyway, doesn't matter much at this stage I suppose, but it would be
> nice to not use 0 as meaning invalid when sizing bridge windows and I'm
> not sure at all about using "start" as an alignment indicator neither...
> It will be much over-aligned in some cases, adding constraints to the
> allocator where we didn't have any before no ?

Hrm... we use "start" today already and it hasn't choked on me so far so
I suppose that's fine. I overlooked that ...

Ben.


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