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From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com (Thomas Petazzoni)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:07:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v2 19/27] pci: PCIe driver for Marvell Armada 370/XP
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Dear Thierry Reding,

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:03:44 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:

> That approach isn't going to work very well with multi-platform,
> though, since the function can only be overridden on a
> per-architecture basis.

I can do like is done for pcibios_align_resource(): put a single
implementation of the function in arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c, and make it
call a hook registered in the hw_pci structure, or even directly use a
numerical value in hw_pci, as Russell suggested earlier.

Best regards,

Thomas
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