linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve Broadcom PAXC support

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 18:22:51 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
To:     Ray Jui <ray.jui@...adcom.com>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve Broadcom PAXC support

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 05:21:02PM -0700, Ray Jui wrote:
> This patch series improves the Broadcom PAXC support by 1) adding more
> quirks for specific versions of PAXC controllers; 2) adding logic to
> reject internally unconfigured physical functions from the embedded
> network processor acting as endpoint; 3) reducing verbose print level
> in the outbound/inbound mapping code
> 
> This patch series is based off v4.17 and is available on GIHUB:
> repo: https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux.git
> branch: sr-paxc-v2
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  - consolidate 2 PAXC related patch series into 1
>  - change the way how the capability list corruption is handled, per
> recommendation from Bjorn. Now handle and fix up the corruption at
> the config register read
>  - rebase to v4.17
> 
> Ray Jui (5):
>   PCI: iproc: Activate PAXC bridge quirk for more devices
>   PCI: iproc: Fix up corrupted PAXC root complex config registers
>   PCI: iproc: Disable MSI parsing in certain PAXC blocks
>   PCI: iproc: Reject unconfigured physical functions from PAXC
>   PCI: iproc: Reduce inbound/outbound mapping print level
> 
>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c | 159 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.h |   8 +++
>  drivers/pci/quirks.c          |   3 +
>  3 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

Hi Ray,

apart from patch 1, that requires Bjorn's ACK, I would take the
series (I will rewrite the logs), I would appreciate if the amount
of HW quirks would decrease since it is becoming quite unwieldy to
handle them, it is your code but please get the point across.

Lorenzo