RE: [PATCH 3/9] RapidIO: Add the ingress port number into the RIO switch data structure

[Bounine, Alexandre]

Micha Nelissen wrote:
> 
> Alexandre Bounine wrote:
> > A switch ingress port number has to be saved for software assisted
error
> > recovery from the error-stopped state. Saving this information also
allows
> > to remove several register reads from the RIO enumeration process.
> 
> Why not keep using the swpinfo field, as you can extract it from
there?
> And your code actually does this.
> 
> Also processor devices can have multiple ports (not only switches), it
> would be good to be ready for that use case.
> 
Agree. I missed the Multiport bit introduced in RIO spec 2.1. Now it is
justified to be as it was before.
I will rework this and next patches. 
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