Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] MIPS: PCI: Use pci_bus_remove_resources()/pci_bus_add_resource()to set up root resources

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2011/8/25 Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> No, I just mean that I don't see why you need this patch at all.  If
>> you pass the list of bus resources to pci_create_bus(), there's no
>> need to fix anything up later.  Or am I missing something?
>
> Well, doing the root resource fixups in here is a *paranoid* way. It's to
> deal with the 'unlikely' circumstance where controller_resources() returns
> the NULL pointer in pcibios_scanbus() due to memory allocation failure.
> Most of the time (always) it's nothing more than repeating the resource
> list setup. But maybe we can do something like this:
>
> if (unlikely(!dev && list_empty(&bus->resources))
>        pcibios_setup_root_resources(bus, hose);
>
>
> What do you think?

I don't think it's worth it.  Just check for failure of
controller_resources(), and if it fails, skip the pci_create_bus()
call.  You've already printed a message (you might add the PCI
domain/bus number).

Bjorn
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