linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] RapidIO: Add relation links between RIO device structures

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Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:18:37 +0200
From:	Micha Nelissen <micha@...i.hopto.org>
To:	Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@....com>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] RapidIO: Add relation links between RIO device structures

Alexandre Bounine wrote:
> Create back and forward links between RIO devices. These links are intended for
> use by error management and hot-plug extensions.

As RapidIO is a switched network, the concept of 'previous' and 'next' 
devices is invalid. Perhaps it's just the way they were 
discovered/enumerated, but that does not matter any more at runtime. Or 
at least, should not matter.

> @@ -237,6 +241,7 @@ struct rio_switch {
>  	u16 hopcount;
>  	u16 destid;
>  	u8  inport;
> +	u8  nports;
>  	u8 *route_table;
>  	u32 port_ok;

This can be extracted from the swpinfo field (which you removed in 
another patch)?

Micha
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