Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] minimal alignment for p2p bars

From: Ram Pai <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:40:25 +0800

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:23:12AM +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> v1 -> v2:
> 	* Shorten the varaible names so that they looks more short.
> 	* Changelog adjustment so that they looks more meaningful.
> 
> v2 -> v3:
> 	* Rebase to 3.5.RC4
> 
> v3 -> v4:
> 	* Merge Yinghai's patches.
> 
> v3 -> v4:
> 	* Split patch for easy review.
> 	* Add function to retrieve the minimal alignment of p2p bridge. 
> 
> v4 -> v5:
> 	* Rebase to 3.5.RC7
> 	* Introduce weak function pcibios_window_alignment() to retrieve
> 	  I/O and memory alignment for P2P bridges.
> 	* Introduce pcibios_window_alignment() for ppc to override the
> 	  PCI function.
> 	* Add ppc_md.pcibios_window_alignment() for specific platform like
> 	  powernv can override ppc's pcibios_window_alignment().
> 
> v5 -> v6:
> 	* Refactor pcibios_window_alignment() so the platform-specific
> 	  implementation needn't return the default alignment according
> 	  to Bjorn's suggestion.
> 	* Simplify pbus_size_mem() according to Bjorn's suggestion: Just
> 	  check the platform required alignment at very end and adjust
> 	  the "min_align" if necessary.
> 
> Lu Yinghai(3):
>   pci: change variable name for find_pci_host_bridge
>   pci: argument pci_bus for find_pci_host_bridge
>   pci: fiddle with conversion of pci and CPU address

Gavin,
	Do you need Yinghai's first 3 patches to implement your
	functionality?

	I dont see those new functions being called from anywhere
	in your patches.

RP