Re: [PATCH] cardbus: Add a fixup hook and fix powerpc

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:52:13 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> The cardbus code creates PCI devices without ever going through the
> necessary fixup bits and pieces that normal PCI devices go through.
> 
> There's in fact a commented out call to pcibios_fixup_bus() in there,
> it's commented because ... it doesn't work.
> 
> I could make pcibios_fixup_bus() do the right thing on powerpc easily
> but I felt it cleaner instead to provide a specific hook
> pci_fixup_cardbus for which a weak empty implementation is provided
> by the PCI core.
> 
> This fixes cardbus on powerbooks and probably all other PowerPC
> platforms which was broken completely for ever on some platforms and
> since 2.6.31 on others such as PowerBooks when we made the DMA ops
> mandatory (since those are setup by the fixups).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Ah the link failure was my fault.  I had fixed up the conflict
incorrectly.  It's applied now.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center