From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 00/13] Support for generic ACPI based PCI host controller Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:38:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4253385.YPSgBqNLfg@wuerfel> References: <1460740008-19489-1-git-send-email-tn@semihalf.com> <5714E224.1030307@semihalf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5714E224.1030307@semihalf.com> Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Tomasz Nowicki Cc: Jayachandran C , Jon Masters , Bjorn Helgaas , Will Deacon , Catalin Marinas , rafael@kernel.org, Hanjun Guo , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Sinan Kaya , jiang.liu@linux.intel.com, robert.richter@caviumnetworks.com, Marcin Wojtas , Liviu.Dudau@arm.com, David Daney , Wangyijing , Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com, msalter@redhat.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Monday 18 April 2016 15:33:24 Tomasz Nowicki wrote: > > Of course we can split discussion into the two topics: > 1. ECAM based ACPI host controller - patches [1-10] > 2. Quirks handling and examples. > > IMO, it is very helpful for reviewers to go with one unified patch set > and see the whole picture. Also, as you can see, quirks handling allows > people to test it easily with their servers (not only QEMU but real HW). I think splitting the two would help tremendously. The regular PCI support should just get merged (it should have been completed years ago when ACPI for ARM64 was first implemented), while the quirks handling contains all ugly nonstandard hacks we have to be careful about. Arnd