linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] of/pci: Provide support for parsing PCI DT ranges property

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Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:05:20 +0100
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] of/pci: Provide support for parsing PCI DT ranges
 property

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:09:56PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:29:51 +0100, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:54:53PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On 02/13/2013 08:25 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 08:23:28AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > >> On 02/12/2013 12:45 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > >>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:43:03PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > >>>> On 02/11/2013 02:22 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > >>>>> From: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>
> > > >>
> > > >>>>> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> > > >>>>>  #define OF_CHECK_COUNTS(na, ns)	(OF_CHECK_ADDR_COUNT(na) && (ns) > 0)
> > > >>>>>  
> > > >>>>>  static struct of_bus *of_match_bus(struct device_node *np);
> > > >>>>> +static struct of_bus *of_find_bus(const char *name);
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Can you move this function up to avoid the forward declaration.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> It needs to be defined after the of_busses structure, which is defined
> > > >>> below the CONFIG_PCI block where of_pci_process_ranges() is defined. I'd
> > > >>> have to move that one as well and add another #ifdef CONFIG_PCI section.
> > > >>> If you prefer that I can do that.
> > > >>
> > > >> Okay, it's fine as is.
> > > >>
> > > >>>>> +static struct of_bus *of_find_bus(const char *name)
> > > >>>>> +{
> > > >>>>> +	unsigned int i;
> > > >>>>> +
> > > >>>>> +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(of_busses); i++)
> > > >>>>> +		if (strcmp(name, of_busses[i].name) == 0)
> > > >>>>                                               ^
> > > >>>> space needed.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I don't understand. Do you want the space to go between '.' and "name"?
> > > >>
> > > >> Must have been some dirt on my screen... Never mind.
> > > >>
> > > >> I'll apply these for 3.9.
> > > > 
> > > > Great, thanks!
> > > 
> > > Grant vetoed merging. We need to see the other architectures using these
> > > functions rather than add yet another copy.
> > 
> > I think I've said this before, but converting the other architectures
> > isn't very trivial, mostly because each has a specific way of storing
> > the values read from these properties.
> 
> Sorry to be harsh, but this isn't new information. I've had to deal with
> the pain more than once before of copied infrastructure that at some
> time in the future needs to be merged again. Just looking at your patch
> I can tell that it is directly derived from the powerpc
> pci_process_bridge_OF_ranges() and which microblaze has already has a
> verbatum copy of.
> 
> So, no, I'm not okay with it for v3.9. I don't want more copies of the
> same code. This doesn't block your v3.10 drivers. When a better patch is
> ready we can set up a separate branch with just the new functions in it
> and the various subsystems can merge that in if needed to resolve
> dependencies.
> 
> Instead, here is what you do; you've got the bones of a good approach,
> but you need to show how it is derived from the powerpc approach. I'll
> reply in specifics to the patches themselves, but I can definitely see
> large blocks of code that can be moved out of powerpc & microblaze and
> into drivers/of/address.c without getting into the platform-specific
> PCI representations that you're concerned about.
> 
> Now, to be clear here, I'm asking you to change powerpc/microblaze code,
> but I am *not asking you to test it*. This is a code move exercises, and
> I will help you with it if you need.

Alright. I have no idea about how this is going to affect the timeframe,
though. Granted, this doesn't sound as painful as I had assumed, but it
is quite a bit of work and I have to see how I can squeeze it in with
everything else.

Thierry

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