Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

[Adrian Cox <apc@agelectronics.co.uk>]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> Interpreting physical BAR values is another issue altogether.  Kernel
> wide interfaces for this may be easily added to include/asm/pci.h
> infrastructure, please just choose some sane name for it and I will
> compose a patch ok? :-)

There's a semi-respectable use for BAR values: peer-to-peer mastering. 
A new kernel interface could actually make that portable, eg:

int pci_peer_master_address(struct pci_dev *master,
	struct pci_dev *target, int resource, unsigned long offset,
	unsigned long *address);
Return values PCI_PEER_OK, PCI_PEER_NOWAY, PCI_PEER_FXBUG,
PCI_PEER_YOURE_JOKING_RIGHT, ... Bus address usable by master placed in
address.

Implementing something like this with a single hostbridge is simple.
It's  harder on boards like my Intel 840 motherboard here, where the
33MHz and 66MHz buses don't talk to each other. It could eventually grow
into a big list of platform specific workarounds, but at least they'd
all be in one place where we could see them.


- Adrian Cox, AG Electronics
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