Re: [PATCH v9 12/12] PCI: Introduce pci_remap_iospace() for remapping PCI I/O bus resources into CPU space

From: Liviu Dudau
Date: Wed Aug 13 2014 - 06:33:22 EST


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:01:18AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 05:25:25PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > Introduce a default implementation for remapping PCI bus I/O resources
> > onto the CPU address space. Architectures with special needs may
> > provide their own version, but most should be able to use this one.
> >
> > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@xxxxxxx>
>
> I guess you could have added the generic pgprot_device definition to
> this patch and the arm64 specific one in the separate arm64 PCIe support
> (and one less patch in total). But not a big issue either way.

I went by the established history on that file, where a new interface gets
introduced together with its use. I guess it makes backing out the change
much easier?

Best regards,
Liviu

>
> --
> Catalin

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