From: Saheed Bolarinwa <refactormyself@gmail.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
helgaas@kernel.org, Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch>
Cc: bjorn@helgaas.com, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/35] ssb: Change PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL to 0
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:13:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78b52ad5-015f-4452-0cd0-dbb2c8597672@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70e57af0-6a8c-a893-67c9-0181af16ae2b@lwfinger.net>
Hello Larry,
On 7/13/20 7:16 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 7/13/20 7:22 AM, Saheed O. Bolarinwa wrote:
>> In reference to the PCI spec (Chapter 2), PCIBIOS* is an x86 concept.
>> Their scope should be limited within arch/x86.
>>
>> Change all PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL to 0
>>
>> Signed-off-by: "Saheed O. Bolarinwa" <refactormyself@gmail.com>
>
> Could you please tell me what difference this makes? It looks like
> source churn rather than a substantive change. The symbol is defined
> in pci.h and is used in many architures. Certainly, PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL
> indicates success even more clearly than 0 does.
>
It is a trivial first step towards a probably significant task. I
explained in the Cover Letter, I can see it didn't get through but I Cc
linux-wireless (properly this time). Probably, too many addresses.
I have resent it. It is here
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20200713185559.31967-1-refactormyself@gmail.com/T/#u
> Why is your name inside quotes in your s-o-b?
>
To keep me company before I get to know my way within the kernel.
I saw people with >2 names do it, so I did! Please let me know if it is odd.
Thank you.
- Saheed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-13 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20200713122247.10985-1-refactormyself@gmail.com>
2020-07-13 12:22 ` [RFC PATCH 02/35] ssb: Change PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL to 0 Saheed O. Bolarinwa
2020-07-13 17:16 ` Larry Finger
2020-07-13 19:13 ` Saheed Bolarinwa [this message]
2020-07-13 18:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-13 18:35 ` Larry Finger
2020-07-13 12:22 ` [RFC PATCH 18/35] bcma: " Saheed O. Bolarinwa
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