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

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Message-ID: <20120205215824.GA5071@comet.dominikbrodowski.net>
Date:	Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:58:24 +0100
From:	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/21] PCI: Fix cardbus bridge resources as optional size
 handling

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:37:44PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Dominik,
> 
> Can you please test branch at
> 
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git
> for-pci2

Tested this on my limited test systems (COUNT=1), and seems to work fine.

Best,
	Dominik
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