linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm: replace incorrect Compliance/Margin magic numbers with PCI_EXP

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Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:45:15 +0100
From:   Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        David Zhou <David1.Zhou@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:     Frederick Lawler <fred@...dlawl.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm: replace incorrect Compliance/Margin magic
 numbers with PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2 definitions

On 2019-11-11 8:29 p.m., Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> 
> Add definitions for these PCIe Link Control 2 register fields:
> 
>   Enter Compliance
>   Transmit Margin
> 
> and use them in amdgpu and radeon.
> 
> NOTE: This is a functional change because "7 << 9" was apparently a typo.
> That mask included the high order bit of Transmit Margin, the Enter
> Modified Compliance bit, and the Compliance SOS bit, but I think what
> was intended was the 3-bit Transmit Margin field at bits 9:7.

Can you split out the functional change into a separate patch 1? That
could make things easier for anyone who bisects the functional change
for whatever reason.


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