Re: [PATCH] pci: support Thunderbolt requirements for I/O resources.

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Nov 12 2014 - 13:31:01 EST


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>> To prevent this, we detect a chain contains a Thunderbolt
>> device by checking the Thunderbolt PCI device id.
>
> I'm really not happy about checking a list of device IDs to identify
> Thunderbolt devices. Surely there's a better way, because a list like
> this has to be updated regularly.

I recently proposed internally to use quirks (pci_fixup_early) for
that, but apparently Michael didn't have time to answer. It might be
he can just comment here since the patch already public.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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