Re: [PATCH] mcb: mcb-pci: Only remap the 1st 0x200 bytes of BAR 0

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 02:23:37PM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 05:11:32PM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > Currently it is not possible to have a kernel with built-in MCB attached
> > devices. This results out of the fact that mcb-pci requests PCI BAR 0, then
> > parses the chameleon table and calls the driver's probe function before
> > releasing BAR 0 again. When building the kernel with modules this is not a
> > problem (and therefore it wasn't detected by my tests yet).
> > 
> > A solution is to only remap the 1st 0x200 bytes of a Chameleon PCI device.
> > 0x200 bytes is the maximum size of a Chameleon v2 Table.
> > 
> > Also this patch stops disabling the PCI device on successful registration of MCB
> > devices.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@men.de>
> > Suggested-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Is there any specific reason why you didn't pick this one up for 3.19? Or did it
> just got lost in your queue?
> 

Hm, I didn't realize I was supposed to pick it up, sorry, I'm not listed
as the "mcb" maintainer, you are :)

Please resend and I'll pick it up after 3.19-rc1 is out.

thanks,

greg k-h