linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] PCI, ACPI, x86: Reserve fw allocated resource for hot-add root bus

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Message-ID: <CAErSpo6qX3ih9DXLqxqJw141OAeTFu0YfSih6LyD0sd2gS-Vyg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2013 11:39:28 -0700
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@...panasonic.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] PCI, ACPI, x86: Reserve fw allocated resource for
 hot-add root bus

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
>>> I don't know, that could be separated patcheset after we conclude
>>> pci root bus hotplug support.
>>
>> The main reason I review patches before merging them is to identify
>> issues that we can fix before they affect everybody.  It makes my life
>> a lot easier if I don't have to keep track of pending unaddressed
>> review comments.  Is there an advantage to waiting and doing this work
>> later?
>>
>>>>> In general these look good.  My main concern is that they only touch
>>>>> x86, without touching the similar code in frv, microblaze, mn10300,
>>>>> and powerpc.
>
> the reason why we need to change those codes for x86, we want to make it support
> pci root bus hotplug. So it would be reasonable for us to align other
> platform to x86
> changes after pci root bus hotplug change is completely done.

OK, I opened https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52531 as a
way to keep track of this consistency issue and merged
pci/yinghai-survey-resources to my -next branch.
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