linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/21] PCI: Fix cardbus bridge resources as optional size handling

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:23:11 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/21] PCI: Fix cardbus bridge resources as optional
 size handling

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:08:34 -0800
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:

> We should not set the requested size to -2.
> 
> that will confuse the resource list sorting with align when SIZEALIGN is used.
> 
> Change to STARTALIGN and pass align from start.
> 
> We are safe to do that just as we do that regular pci bridge.
> 
> In the long run, we should just treat cardbus like regular pci bridge.
> 
> Also fix when realloc is not passed, should keep the requested size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>

I'd like to see some testing on this one... Dominik?

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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