Re: [PATCH v1] PCI: Add PCIE_CONFIG_REQUEST_WAIT_MS waiting time value

[Kevin Xie <kevin.xie@starfivetech.com>]

On 2023/12/1 2:35, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 06:03:55PM +0800, Kevin Xie wrote:
>> On 2023/11/30 7:21, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 09:45:08AM +0800, Kevin Xie wrote:
>> >> Add the PCIE_CONFIG_REQUEST_WAIT_MS marco to define the minimum waiting
>> >> time between sending the first configuration request to the device and
>> >> exit from a conventional reset (or after link training completes).
>> > 
>> > s/marco/macro/
>> > 
>> > List the first event before the second one, i.e., the delay is from
>> > exit from reset to the config request.
>> 
>> OK，I will use "from A to B" instead of "between A and B".
> 
> That's not my point.
> 
> My point was you said "between B (config request) and A (exit from
> reset)".  "A" happens first, so it should be mentioned first.
> 

Got it.

>> > I assume there are follow-on patches that actually use this?  Can we
>> > make this the first patch in a series so we know we don't have an
>> > unused macro lying around?
>> 
>> Yes, we will use the marco in the next version of our PCIe controller patches.
>> Here is the link of current version patch series:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231115114912.71448-20-minda.chen@starfivetech.com/T/#u 
>> 
>> Do you mean that I should put this patch back to the above series as
>> one of the separate patches?
> 
> Yes, please.  Handling them as a group is less overhead and helps
> avoid merge issues (if they're all in a series there's no possibility
> that the user gets merged before the macro itself).
> 

OK, I will put the patch back with these changes.

> Bjorn