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Subject: Re: [RFC 01/32] Kconfig: introduce and depend on LEGACY_PCI
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:01:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ycr8ooFX+w9RGu1M@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1475f6aecb752a858941f44a957b2183cd68405.camel@linux.ibm.com>
On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 11:58:55AM +0100, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> We add both LEGACY_PCI and HAS_IOPORT to differentiate between two
> cases. HAS_IOPORT is for PC-style devices that are not on a PCI card
> while LEGACY_PCI is for PCI drivers that require port I/O. This
> includes pre-PCIe devices as well as PCIe devices which require
> features like I/O spaces. The "legacy" naming is comes from the PCIe
> spec which in section 2.1.1.2 says "PCI Express supports I/O Space for
> compatibility with legacy devices which require their use. Future
> revisions of this specification may deprecate the use of I/O Space."
Ah, then mention the reason why this is called LEGACY_PCI is that it is
because that is what the PCI spec calls it. It was not obvious here at
all that this is where the name came from.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-28 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20211227164317.4146918-1-schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
2021-12-27 16:42 ` [RFC 01/32] Kconfig: introduce and depend on LEGACY_PCI Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-27 17:48 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-12-28 2:09 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-12-28 8:21 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-28 9:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-12-28 10:58 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-28 12:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-12-28 12:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-12-28 15:06 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-28 17:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-12-29 11:45 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-29 12:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-12-29 16:03 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-12-29 16:55 ` Niklas Schnelle
2022-01-05 17:42 ` John Garry
2022-01-05 19:47 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-01-06 17:41 ` John Garry
2022-01-06 18:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-01-07 17:16 ` John Garry
2022-01-10 9:34 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-27 16:43 ` [RFC 17/32] net: Kconfig: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-27 17:28 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
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