From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add ACPI support for HiSilicon PCIe Host Controllers Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:55:11 +0100 Message-ID: <7297343.ktGck3KQJN@wuerfel> References: <1454585860-60709-1-git-send-email-gabriele.paoloni@huawei.com> <1930535.mkCdtpUWq7@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.130]:55316 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752360AbcBHNz5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 08:55:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Gabriele Paoloni , "Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com" , "jcm@redhat.com" , "tn@semihalf.com" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , Linuxarm , "xuwei (O)" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "Wangzhou (B)" , "liudongdong (C)" , "Guohanjun (Hanjun Guo)" , "bhelgaas@google.com" , zhangjukuo , "Liguozhu (Kenneth)" , qiujiang On Monday 08 February 2016 13:17:58 Gabriele Paoloni wrote: > > Now I have removed the dependency from designware but I still think > the best location for the code is in "drivers/pci/host/": > the ACPI quirks share the config read/write functions with the DT > driver, moreover for other hosts in future I think it makes sense > to stay in "drivers/pci/host/" as they could even share more init > code with their respective DT versions... I haven't really followed what is going on with ACPI. Do you expect to see future machines come out that are not just implementing SBSA but that still need to run ACPI? I thought this was just a hack for some early machines that only run with ACPI but are not actually compliant. Arnd