From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: export constants from shpc.h?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:01:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120223120119.782db1da@jbarnes-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120223195053.GB28779@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:50:54 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:50:04AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:54:49 +0200
> > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've implemented an shpc controller emulator
> > > in qemu, so I needed a bunch of constants
> > > similar to what drivers/pci/hotplug/shpc.h has.
> > >
> > > Any objections to adding a PCI_SHPC_XXXX prefix
> > > so these and moving them to pci_regs.h?
> > > PCI utilities can then use them from /usr/include/linux.
> > >
> > > One can see how a utility that looks at slot LED and MRL
> > > states might be useful
> > > (we'd need to export the base offset through sysfs
> > > to make it possible to use such in parallel with shpc).
> >
> > pci_regs.h is generally reserved for architected regs,
> > but maybe a
> > separate header file makes sense. Or just patch libpciaccess or
> > pci-utils with your tool.
> >
> > --
> > Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
> Fair enough, but out of curiosity,
> could you pls clarify what is meant by 'architected'?
> SHPC is a PCI-SIG spec after all, not a vecor-specific interface...
Sorry that's what I meant; I was thinking it was one of the vendor
ones. Putting the SHPC reg definitions in pci_regs.h is fine.
Thanks,
--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-16 14:54 RFC: export constants from shpc.h? Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-23 16:50 ` Jesse Barnes
2012-02-23 19:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-23 20:01 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
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