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From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16] ntb: add check and comment for link up to mw_count
 and mw_get_align
To: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@dell.com>, linux-ntb@googlegroups.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 'Jon Mason' <jdmason@kudzu.us>, 'Dave Jiang' <dave.jiang@intel.com>, 'Bjorn Helgaas' <bhelgaas@google.com>, 'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, 'Kurt Schwemmer' <kurt.schwemmer@microsemi.com>, 'Stephen Bates' <sbates@raithlin.com>, 'Serge Semin' <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
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On 6/29/2017 2:13 PM, Allen Hubbe wrote:
> Unfortunately, it is to work around hardware errata.  That is not so trivial to fix.

Can you describe more what the work around is doing? Can you share the 
code? It seems odd that a workaround is based on the alignment 
restrictions of the mws.

Logan