Re: [PATCH 07/22] scsi: hisi_sas: add the initialisation for pci-based controller

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed May 17 2017 - 08:34:01 EST


On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:49 PM, John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Add the code to initialise controller which is based on pci device
> in hisi_sas_pci_init.c
>
> The main functionality added is for probing and initialisation of
> the controller based on pci device.
>
> The core controller routines are still in hisi_sas_main.c; some
> common initialisation functions and structures are also exported from
> hisi_sas_main.c for pci init.
>
> For platform device-based controller, controller properties - like
> phy count - were read from the firmware. For pci-based controller this
> information is hard-coded in the driver, in new struct hisi_sas_pci_hw.
>

Do you plan to add further PCI based front-ends besides the v3 driver
in the future? If not, you can save one level of indirection here and merge
pci_init.c into the v3 implementation.

Arnd