Re: [PATCH 2/2] sb_edac: Claim a different PCI device

From: Aristeu Rozanski
Date: Mon Sep 08 2014 - 10:11:07 EST


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 02:45:41PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> sb_edac controls a large number of different PCI functions. Rather
> than registering as a normal PCI driver for all of them, it
> registers for just one so that it gets probed and, at probe time, it
> looks for all the others.
>
> Coincidentally, the device it registers for also contains the SMBUS
> registers, so the PCI core will refuse to probe both sb_edac and a
> future iMC SMBUS driver. The drivers don't actually conflict, so
> just change sb_edac's device table to probe a different device.
>
> An alternative fix would be to merge the two drivers, but sb_edac
> will also refuse to load on non-ECC systems, whereas i2c_imc would
> still be useful without ECC.
>
> The only user-visible change should be that sb_edac appears to bind
> a different device.
>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rui Wang <ruiv.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/edac/sb_edac.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c b/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
> index a2597e9313c6..e3bc2cced580 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
> @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ static const struct pci_id_table pci_dev_descr_ibridge_table[] = {
> * pci_device_id table for which devices we are looking for
> */
> static const struct pci_device_id sbridge_pci_tbl[] = {
> - {PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_SBRIDGE_IMC_TA)},
> + {PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_SBRIDGE_IMC_HA0)},
> {PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_IBRIDGE_IMC_HA0_TA)},
> {0,} /* 0 terminated list. */
> };

Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Aristeu

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