Subject: Re: 3.4-rc3 compile failed on IBM Power6

From: Gavin Shan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:50:11 +0800

>> In order to make iommu.c irrelative to CONFIG_EEH, we might figure out
>> the PE number of the PCI device during PCI probe time. Here're some
>> rough thoughts about the rework.
>> 
>>         - Introduce additional field "int pe_num" to "struct dev_archdata".
>>           That would be traced like: (struct pci_dev)->(struct device dev)
>>           ->(struct dev_archdata archdata).
>>         - During the PCI probe time (maybe pci_fixup_early), we can figure
>>           out the PE number.
>> 
>> Then we can retrieve the PE number of PCI device from "int pe_num" and needn't
>> care CONFIG_EEH has been turned on or off. I'm not sure Ben has any comments
>> on the idea? 
>
>Just select EEH from pseries Kconfig, no point in keeping that a user visible option.
>

Thanks for the suggestion, Ben :-)

I've sent one trivial patch against it.

>Cheers,
>Ben.

Thanks,
Gavin