From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Return-Path: Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:47810 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726224AbgHCG5C (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2020 02:57:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 07:56:29 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] Drop uses of pci_read_config_*() return value Message-ID: <20200803065629.GA19534@infradead.org> References: <20200802184648.GA23190@nazgul.tnic> <20200802191406.GA248232@bjorn-Precision-5520> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200802191406.GA248232@bjorn-Precision-5520> Sender: linux-fpga-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Petkov , Saheed Bolarinwa , trix@redhat.com, Kalle Valo , "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Wolfgang Grandegger , Marc Kleine-Budde , Miquel Raynal , Richard Weinberger , Vignesh Raghavendra , Joerg Roedel , bjorn@helgaas.com, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 02:14:06PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > But what guarantees that a PCI config register cannot contain ~0? > If there's something about that in the spec I'd love to know where it > is because it would simplify a lot of things. There isn't. An we even have cases like the NVMe controller memory buffer and persistent memory region, which are BARs that store abritrary values for later retreival, so it can't. (now those features have a major issue with error detection, but that is another issue)