Re: [PATCH 10/11] pciehp: add support for bridge resource reallocation

Alex Chiang
2010-01-16T04:59:15Z

* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>:
> From: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> With this patch, pciehp driver try to clear PCI bridge resources to
> parent bridge (root port or switch downstream port) of the slot
>
> so we can shrink pci bridge resource for those port
>
> This feature is enabled when 'pciehp_realloc' option is specified.
>
> -v2: make it could be appiled after Yinghai patchset that touch pci bridge
> resource also remove poweron check, because pci_bridge_release_res will
> check child at first

Same comment as my earlier patch. Why not just make this the
default behavior, instead of introducing yet another command line
parameter for users to guess at?

/ac