Re: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the switch structure

[Mika Westerberg]

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 08:07:08AM +0000, Levy, Amir (Jer) wrote:
> On Sun, May 21 2017, 11:00 AM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:40:41AM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 07:35:21AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 05:29:47AM +0000, Levy, Amir (Jer) wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, May 21 2017, 07:47 AM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 05:39:08PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > +	default:
> > > > > > > +		sw->generation = 1;
> > > > > > > +		break;
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If someone adds an entry for, say, a new TB3 controller to
> > > > > > nhi_ids[] but forgets to update this function, the controller is
> > > > > > assigned the wrong generation number.  It might be better to
> > > > > > make TB3 the default and list each TB1 controller instead since
> > > > > > it's less likely for Intel to introduce an older gen chip.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Generally I think it's problematic to require that multiple
> > > > > > files are touched whenever a new controller is added.  Isn't the
> > > > > > generation number or link speed (10/20/40) stored in some
> > > > > > register in PCI config space (VSEC 0x1234) or TB config space?
> > > > >
> > > > > How about setting information, that isn't available from PCI, in
> > > > > pci_device_id.driver_data when initializing nhi_ids[]?
> > > >
> > > > Right, that would also be possible, though reading the generation
> > > > number from a register would be more elegant, if such a register exists.
> > >
> > > I don't think there is such register but I can put this information to
> > > the driver_data instead.
> > 
> > Actually these are Thunderbolt switch IDs, not NHI PCI IDs so I don't think
> > driver_data is the right place after all. So if no objections, I'll update the
> > function to default to TBT3 but keep the switch case and add the TBT1 IDs +
> > Win Ridge there.
> 
> There is correlation between switch ID to NHI ID.

Indeed but what if you have a device with a Port Ridge TBT controller
(switch) connected to the host? Here we want to get the generation of
whatever Thunderbolt switch, not just root switch (where NHI ID would
indeed suffice).