From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937489AbXGSJXx (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:23:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763525AbXGSJXl (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:23:41 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:60741 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764175AbXGSJXi (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:23:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] - Increase PNP_MAX_PORT. ACPI devices can have a lot IO resource declarations From: Thomas Renninger Reply-To: trenn@suse.de To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: linux-kernel , linux-acpi , Alexey Starikovskiy , Jean Delvare , Bernhard Walle In-Reply-To: <200707181533.25366.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> References: <1184595667.19959.312.camel@queen.suse.de> <200707170949.47346.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <1184746874.4062.35.camel@fanta4.site> <200707181533.25366.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Novell/SUSE Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:23:35 +0200 Message-Id: <1184837015.15328.116.camel@queen.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:33 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Wednesday 18 July 2007 02:21:14 am Thomas Renninger wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:49 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > On Monday 16 July 2007 08:21:07 am Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > > PNP0C02 devices normally have a lot more IO port declarations than > > > > currently defined in PNP_MAX_PORT > > > > > > Yes. > > > > > > > I also wonder whether other limits like: > > > > #define PNP_MAX_MEM 4 > > > > #define PNP_MAX_IRQ 2 > > > > #define PNP_MAX_DMA 2 > > > > could get exceeded with pnpacpi? > > > > > > Definitely. I think the current limits come from the PNP ISA spec > > > (sec 4.6). I don't see similar limits in the PNPBIOS or ACPI specs, > > > so ideally I think they should be dynamically allocated as you suggest. > > > > > I wanted to implement the dynamic approach and used a dynamically > > allocated array, filled up from beginning. While this is close to the > > current implementation I thought this is the easiest sufficient way... > > (I also only did this for io ports where most mem is wasted). > > Now I am thinking about hotplug (e.g. if a SSDT with resources gets > > hot-added, removed)... If a device can vanish, the array must get > > reordered, not a really well fitting structure, a list (a pnp specific > > set up, or from include/linux/list.h?) should be better? > > I don't understand the array reordering problem. Either a device exists > or it doesn't. Loading or unloading an SSDT should not change the number > of resources for devices (except that it might add or remove an entire > device). Yes, you are right. I feared there could be cases were single resources should be able to be removed. > > I think for now, it would be sufficient to increase PNP_MAX_IRQ to 8 > and PNP_MAX_PORT to 32 and be done with it. I don't think it's worth > getting more complicated unless we dynamically allocate everything. Ok. Thanks, Thomas