Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] X86/PCI/ACPI: Rework setup_resource() via functions ACPI resource functions

[Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>]

On 09/06/2013 12:10 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> wrote:
>> On 09/06/2013 11:36 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
>>> Please make corresponding changes to arch/ia64/pci/pci.c so that these
>>> paths remain as similar as possible.  There's quite a bit of
>>> similarity between this x86 and ia64 code, and it would be nice to
>>> unify them more when possible.
>>>
>>
>> OK. Actually, I have such plan. I will do that if there is no objection on
>> this patchset.
>
> Great, I'm glad to hear that!  I'm not sure whether you mean "after
> this patchset is accepted" or "as part of this patchset if it seems a
> reasonable path."  I vote for the latter, because if we put in the
> parts people care about, i.e., x86, the rest seems to never happen.
> That's not surprising; whose manager will approve extra time to work
> on an arch that's not on their critical path?  But in my opinion,
> doing just x86 is only doing half the job, and we have to do the whole
> thing if we want to keep Linux maintainable in the future.

I mean the later. :).
Yes, Linux maintainable is very important.
My plan is to find all such cases of converting ACPI resource to generic 
resource but not using ACPI resource function and rework them.


>
> Bjorn
>