Re: [PATCH v9 03/12] PCI: Introduce helper functions to deal with PCI I/O ranges.

[Liviu Dudau <liviu@dudau.co.uk>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 03:26:04PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 05:25:16PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > Some architectures do not have a simple view of the PCI I/O space
> > and instead use a range of CPU addresses that map to bus addresses.
> > For some architectures these ranges will be expressed by OF bindings
> > in a device tree file.
> > 
> > This patch introduces a pci_register_io_range() helper function with
> > a generic implementation that can be used by such architectures to
> > keep track of the I/O ranges described by the PCI bindings. If the
> > PCI_IOBASE macro is not defined that signals lack of support for PCI
> > and we return an error.
> > 
> > In order to retrieve the CPU address associated with an I/O port, a
> > new helper function pci_pio_to_address() is introduced. This will
> > search in the list of ranges registered with pci_register_io_range()
> > and return the CPU address that corresponds to the given port.
> > 
> > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/of/address.c       | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/of_address.h |  2 +
> >  2 files changed, 97 insertions(+)
> 
> Actually, I think we moved too much code into drivers/of/. Is there
> anything OF specific about this code to live here (apart from
> OF_BAD_ADDR)? I think driver/pci/ more appropriate?

I have no strong preference for one place vs the other. While this does
not use any OF specific code, it should be called only from OF enabled
code. So the relationship is not one of depending on of_* but on being
dependent on.

> 
> Otherwise it looks fine to me.

Thanks! Would be nice if you can prod at the kernel summit other maintainers
for ACKs.

Best regards,
Liviu

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