linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/pci: Improve device hotplug initialization

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Date:	Fri, 31 May 2013 15:44:07 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Chen Yuanquan-B41889 <B41889@...escale.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Yuanquan Chen <Yuanquan.Chen@...escale.com>,
	Hiroo Matsumoto <matsumoto.hiroo@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/pci: Improve device hotplug initialization

On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 22:14 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:30:41PM +0800, Chen Yuanquan-B41889 wrote:
> > On 05/29/2013 01:35 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > >bios_add_device(). Drop explicit calls to pcibios_setup_device();
> > >this makes pcibios_setup_bus_devices() a noop function which could
> > >eve
> > 
> > Yeah, it's more reasonable to do the irq and DMA related initialization
> > in one code path for all devices.
> > 
> Any comments / feedback on the code itself ?

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to review it yet, I'm fairly bogged down
at the moment. I want to tread carefully because the previous iteration
of changing that stuff did break a few platforms in the end.

Cheers,
Ben.


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