Re: [PATCH 1/2] pci: release that leaf bridge' resource that is notbig -v11

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Mon Nov 23 2009 - 20:15:43 EST


Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried v11 patches. This version seems to fix the problem I
> reported against previous version.
>
> I have no objection against the idea of resource allocation
> changes for PCI express hotplug slots.

thanks

>
> But I still have concern about changing resource allocation for
> other than PCI express hotplug slots. For example, some hotplug
> controller other than PCI express can have multiple slots under
> the same bus. If some hotplug slots are occupied and the others
> are empty at the boot time, I think your code try to shrink the
> bus resources for hotplug slots allocated by BIOS. It would break
> the hot-add on the empty slots due to the resource allocation
> failure.

no,
it will not touch bridge resources that already assigned by BIOS except
some bridge resource is not big enough. and get big one for them.

YH
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