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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:44:29 +0530
From: Vidya Sagar <vidyas@...dia.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>, lpieralisi@...nel.org,
Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>,
Jonathan Derrick <jonathan.derrick@...ux.dev>
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Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 0/4] GPIO based PCIe Hot-Plug support
On 10/4/2022 9:34 AM, Vidya Sagar wrote:
>
>
> On 10/3/2022 11:51 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
>> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
>>
>>
>> On Monday 03 October 2022 13:09:49 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 05:50:07PM -0600, Jonathan Derrick wrote:
>>>> On 10/1/2022 10:20 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>
>>>>> Would not it better to rather synthesise PCIe Slot Capabilities
>>>>> support
>>>>> in your PCIe Root Port device (e.g. via pci-bridge-emul.c) and then
>>>>> let
>>>>> existing PCI hotplug code to take care for hotplugging? Because it
>>>>> already implements all required stuff for re-scanning, registering and
>>>>> unregistering PCIe devices for Root Ports with Slot Capabilities.
>>>>> And I
>>>>> think that there is no need to have just another (GPIO based)
>>>>> implementation of PCI hotplug.
>>>>
>>>> I did that a few years ago (rejected), but can attest to the
>>>> robustness of
>>>> the pcie hotplug code on non-hotplug slots.
>>>> https://lwn.net/Articles/811988/
>>>
>>> I think the thread is here:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/1581120007-5280-1-git-send-email-jonathan.derrick@intel.com/
>>>
>>> and I'm sorry that my response came across as "rejected". I intended
>>> it as "this is good ideas and good work and we should keep going".
>>>
>>> Bjorn
>>
>> Nice! So we have consensus that this is a good idea. Anyway, if you need
>> help with designing something here, please let me know as I have good
>> understanding of all (just two) consumers of pci-bridge-emul.c driver.
>>
>
> Thanks all for your comments.
>
> I would like to hear from Bjorn / Lorenzo if the design of the current
> patch series is fine at a high level or I should explore emulating the
> root port's configuration space to fake slot config/control registers
> (which in turn depend on the hotplug GPIO interrupt & state to update
> Presence Detect related bits in Slot status register) and use the PCIe
> native Hot-plug framework itself to carry out with enabling the Hot-plug
> functionality?
Bjorn / Lorenzo,
Could you please take time to comment on the discussion happened here
and the right approach to be followed?
Thanks,
Vidya Sagar
>
> Thanks,
> Vidya Sagar
>
>
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