Re: 3.4-rc3 compile failed on IBM Power6

From: Gavin Shan
Date: Wed Apr 25 2012 - 01:50:29 EST


>> In order to make iommu.c irrelative to CONFIG_EEH, we might figure out
>> the PE number of the PCI device during PCI probe time. Here're some
>> rough thoughts about the rework.
>>
>> - Introduce additional field "int pe_num" to "struct dev_archdata".
>> That would be traced like: (struct pci_dev)->(struct device dev)
>> ->(struct dev_archdata archdata).
>> - During the PCI probe time (maybe pci_fixup_early), we can figure
>> out the PE number.
>>
>> Then we can retrieve the PE number of PCI device from "int pe_num" and needn't
>> care CONFIG_EEH has been turned on or off. I'm not sure Ben has any comments
>> on the idea?
>
>Just select EEH from pseries Kconfig, no point in keeping that a user visible option.
>

Thanks for the suggestion, Ben :-)

I've sent one trivial patch against it.

>Cheers,
>Ben.
>
>

Thanks,
Gavin

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