Re: [Bugfix v4 1/2] eata: Convert eata driver as normal PCI and platform device drivers

[Jiang Liu]

On 2015/10/8 10:51, Jiang Liu wrote:
> Previously the eata driver just grabs and accesses eata PCI devices
> without implementing a PCI device driver, that causes troubles with
> latest IRQ related
> 
> Commit 991de2e59090 ("PCI, x86: Implement pcibios_alloc_irq() and
> pcibios_free_irq()") changes the way to allocate PCI legacy IRQ
> for PCI devices on x86 platforms. Instead of allocating PCI legacy
> IRQs when pcibios_enable_device() gets called, now pcibios_alloc_irq()
> will be called by pci_device_probe() to allocate PCI legacy IRQs
> when binding PCI drivers to PCI devices.
> 
> But the eata driver directly accesses PCI devices without implementing
> corresponding PCI drivers, so pcibios_alloc_irq() won't be called for
> those PCI devices and wrong IRQ number may be used to manage the PCI
> device.
> 
> This patch implements a PCI device driver to manage eata PCI devices,
> so eata driver could properly cooperate with the PCI core. It also
> provides headroom for PCI hotplug with eata driver.
> 
> It also represents non-PCI eata devices as platform devices, so it could
> be managed as normal devices.
> 

Hi all,
	Sorry, should add:
Reported-and-tested-by: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ballabio, Dario <dario.ballabio@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
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