linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: pcibus address to resource converting take bus instead of dev

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQW60hW06sr=ahV6rEMRQ5kA04A_1mUtfZQAra__6ttNxw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 9 Dec 2013 12:47:24 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: pcibus address to resource converting take bus
 instead of dev

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:03:18PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Ugh.  Why would we add new functions with "__" prefixes?  There are
>> >> only a handful of callers to pcibios_bus_to_resource() and
>> >> pcibios_resource_to_bus().  We can just change them to supply a
>> >> "struct pci_bus *" directly.  That's a better match for how the
>> >> hardware works anyway.
>> >
>>
>> Please double check if you are happy with the change.
>> Hope that will not update stable tree maintainer guys.
>
> What do you mean by this?

Do not want to change too much code, to upset stable tree maintainers.

>
> How is this a -stable kernel patch?

We have stable patch that will need use the new function.

[PATCH 2/2] PCI: Only enable realloc auto when root bus has 64bit mmio

Thanks

Yinghai
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