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From: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org" <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	"bhelgaas@google.com" <bhelgaas@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: More PRI/PASID cleanup
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:28:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111108162826.GD5182@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111103034359.10286.19062.stgit@bling.home>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 11:53:56PM -0400, Alex Williamson wrote:
> More consistency cleanups.  Drop the _OFF, separate and indent
> CTRL/CAP/STATUS bit definitions, fix that PASID_CAP doesn't
> actually report the ENABLE bit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Joerg, I can't test this, so you may want to make sure I'm not
> breaking your API.  The March 31, 2011 version of the PASID ECN
> shows bit 0 of the PASID capability register as reserved, not
> an indicator of support for or status of the enable bit.
> Presumably the entire capability wouldn't be included if it
> can't be enabled.  With the below, pci_enable_pasid() now checks
> the right bit, but also pci_pasid_features() no longer masks in
> bit 0, but being reserved, it should have been clear anyway.

Looks like you are only renaming stuff. I don't see the real point but I
also don't object unless this will be merged upstream soon. I plan to
push the code using these capabilities for the next merge-window and if
this one will me merged then too it will cause a lot of pain.

	
	Joerg

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-08 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03  3:53 [PATCH] pci: More PRI/PASID cleanup Alex Williamson
2011-11-08 16:28 ` Roedel, Joerg [this message]
2011-11-08 16:44   ` Alex Williamson
2011-11-08 17:17     ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-11-08 17:31       ` Alex Williamson
2011-11-08 17:54         ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-11-08 18:20           ` Alex Williamson
2011-11-09  9:59             ` Roedel, Joerg

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