linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_lpss: Release Quark MSI vectors on exit

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Date:   Thu, 5 Jan 2017 00:52:05 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        "linux-serial@...r.kernel.org" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_lpss: Release Quark MSI vectors on exit

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com> wrote:
> On 2017-01-04 23:19, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com> wrote:
>>> No one seems to do this magically in the background, so we have to do
>>> the job in the exit handler that corresponds to the board setup handler.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 60a9244a5d14 ("serial: 8250_lpss: enable MSI for Intel Quark")
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
>>
>> NAK, check the PCI devres code, please.
>>
>> Christoph, can you amend documentation to make this clear?
>>
>> I NAKed already third patch related to PCI managed resources (couple
>> of those regarding to pci_irq_* API)/
>>
>
> Ah, there are resources that are managed without being allocated
> explicitly that way. Hmm, not very intuitive. Are MSI / MSI-X vectors
> the only such cases?

pci_request_regions(), etc.
Almost all stuff which is usually used in ->probe() of casual PCI driver.


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko