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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4h_kSYhcGAdZshFPFbGPgZKCvUh9q7M=jMMRaEauUPzaQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:25:59 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
Cc:     Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@...el.com>, linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PCI <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        "Kelley, Sean V" <sean.v.kelley@...el.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/9] cxl/acpi: add OSC support

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:00 AM Jonathan Cameron
<Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:43:49 -0800
> Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@...el.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>
> >
> > Add support to advertise OS capabilities, and request OS control for CXL
> > features using the ACPI _OSC mechanism. Advertise support for all
> > possible CXL features, and attempt to request control too for all
> > possible features.
> >
> > Based on a patch by Sean Kelley.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@...el.com>
>
> I guess unsurprisingly a lot of this is cut and paste from PCIe
> so can we share some of the code?
>

I do not see a refactoring effort for these bit being all that
fruitful. The backport pressure for this driver stack I expect will be
higher than most, so I'm sensitive to avoiding unnecessary core
entanglements.

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