linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Change pci_raw_ops to pci_raw

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Date:	Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:53:33 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Tony Camuso <tcamuso@...hat.com>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>,
	Loic Prylli <loic@...i.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Martin Mares <mj@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change pci_raw_ops to pci_raw_read/write

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2008 12:45 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:24:18PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>> I suggest Ivan's patch be merged ASAP as it actually fixes bugs.
>>>>> This patch is just cleanup (and takes care of some future concerns).
>>>> your patch and Ivan's patch should be merged in one...
>>> I really don't care whether they get merges as one or separately, but I
>>> think it should be merged _now_ (-rc1 is already delayed), and I'd like to
>>> see the final versions of both. Does anybody have them in a final
>>> agreed-upon format (preferably with that oddness in quirk_intel_irqbalance
>>> also fixed?)
>> I just looked at fixing that -- the reason seems to be that we don't
>> actually have the struct pci_dev at that point.  I can fix it, but I
>> think it's actually buggy.  I want to look at some chipset docs to
>> confirm that though.
>>
>> I've attached the two patches that I believe are the ones we want.  We
>> can (and should) fix quirk_intel_irqbalance separately.
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> those two patch just got into linus 2.6.25-rc1.
> 
> I assume that you will drop
> gregkh-pci-pci-make-pci-extended-config-space-a-driver-opt-in.patch in
> -mm.
> 
> please check some updated patches in -mm that could be affected. hope
> it could save you some time
> 
> x86-validate-against-acpi-motherboard-resources.patch
> x86-clear-pci_mmcfg_virt-when-mmcfg-get-rejected.patch
> x86-mmconf-enable-mcfg-early.patch
> x86_64-check-msr-to-get-mmconfig-for-amd-family-10h-opteron-v3.patch

I don't think any of these patches are affected. They all affect whether 
to use MMCONFIG globally or not, regardless of whether not particular 
accesses will use it.
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