linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 07/15] pci, acpi: Provide generic way to assign bus domain number.

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Message-ID: <CAKc_7PU+i2AwOVCyW2VNt4BZCWw=KBMAbV8v9DVQ2Ess3WE=kw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:14:13 +0530
From:	Jayachandran Chandrashekaran Nair 
	<jayachandran.chandrashekaran@...adcom.com>
To:	Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	will.deacon@....com, catalin.marinas@....com, rafael@...nel.org,
	hanjun.guo@...aro.org,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
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	Jayachandran Chandrashekaran Nair <jchandra@...adcom.com>,
	Stefano.Stabellini@...citrix.com,
	robert.richter@...iumnetworks.com, mw@...ihalf.com,
	Liviu.Dudau@....com, ddaney@...iumnetworks.com,
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	msalter@...hat.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org,
	jcm@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 07/15] pci, acpi: Provide generic way to assign bus
 domain number.

Tomasz, Lorenzo,

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com> wrote:
> As we now have valid PCI host bridge device reference we can
> introduce code that is going to find its bus domain number using
> ACPI _SEG method.
>
> Note that _SEG method is optional, therefore _SEG absence means
> that all PCI buses belong to domain 0.
>
> While at it, for the sake of code clarity we put ACPI and DT domain
> assign methods into the corresponding helpers.

In my patchset, I had a slightly different and I think better approach for
this without calling the _SEG method again. Please see
http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg478167.html
at the last part of http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg478169.html

JC.