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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	towerlexa@gmx.de
Subject: Re: Who's responsible for configuring CLS on a cardbus device?
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:53:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090529165331.GD28355@lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090526142300.73d466d0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:23:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
...
> > This is solvable by simply setting CLS to the correct value but who's
> > job is it?  For non-hotplug devices, this is configured by the BIOS
> > (at least on PC), so for hotplug devices I think falls on the lap of
> > the PCI code but I'm not sure.  If this is something which the
> > sata_sil driver should be responsible for, is there an established way
> > to determine the proper CLS value?
> 
> Currently its handled by pci_set_mwi() but there isn't actually a more
> direct way to do this.

There isn't for the drivers because BIOS is supposed to set
PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE.

If the BIOS isn't setting PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, the arch specific
pci support should be checking PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE and/or setting
it in pcibios_set_master().

hth,
grant

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-29 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-26 13:05 Who's responsible for configuring CLS on a cardbus device? Tejun Heo
2009-05-26 13:23 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-26 23:44   ` Robert Hancock
2009-05-26 23:51     ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-27  0:19       ` Kenji Kaneshige
2009-05-27 13:32         ` [RFC PATCH] pccard: configure CLS on attach Tejun Heo
2009-05-27 14:03           ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-27 23:11             ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-28  6:46               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-05  5:49           ` Axel Birndt
2009-05-29 16:53   ` Grant Grundler [this message]

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