linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 21/23] pci, acpi: Support for ACPI based PCI hostbridge init

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Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:21:02 +0100
From:	Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	bhelgaas@...gle.com, will.deacon@....com, catalin.marinas@....com,
	rjw@...ysocki.net, hanjun.guo@...aro.org,
	Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com, okaya@...eaurora.org,
	jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com, Stefano.Stabellini@...citrix.com,
	jchandra@...adcom.com, jcm@...hat.com,
	linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Liviu.Dudau@....com, ddaney@...iumnetworks.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	robert.richter@...iumnetworks.com, Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com,
	msalter@...hat.com, wangyijing@...wei.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mw@...ihalf.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 21/23] pci, acpi: Support for ACPI based PCI hostbridge
 init

On 18.12.2015 13:40, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 December 2015 16:16:31 Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
>> Because of two patch series:
>> 1. Jiang Liu's common interface to support PCI host bridge init
>> 2. MMCONFIG refactoring (part of this patch set)
>> now we can think about generic ACPI based PCI host bridge driver
>> out of arch/ directory.
>>
>> This driver use information from MCFG table (PCI config space regions)
>> and _CRS method (IO/irq resources) to initialize PCI hostbridge.
>>
>> TBD: We are still not sure whether we should reassign resources
>> after PCI bus enumeration or trust firmware to do all that work for
>> us properly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>
>> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>> CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
>> CC: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>
>> CC: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>
>> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
>> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>
>>
>
> I think this code could better live in drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> along with all the related functions. It's not really a driver
> by itself and cannot be a loadable module or built on other
> architectures.
>
> You can put all the code inside an #ifdef ARCH_PCI_HOST_GENERIC_ACPI
> there.
>

Makes sense to me, thanks.

Tomasz
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