Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Description for PCI patches using platform driver

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:43:17 -0500

On 06/10/2012 09:33 PM, Jia Hongtao-B38951 wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 6:47 PM
>> To: Jia Hongtao-B38951; [email-masked];
>> [email-masked]
>> Cc: Li Yang-R58472; [email-masked]; Wood Scott-B07421
>> Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/6] Description for PCI patches using platform
>> driver
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jia Hongtao-B38951
>>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 3:12 PM
>>> To: [email-masked]; [email-masked]
>>> Cc: Li Yang-R58472; [email-masked]; Wood Scott-B07421;
>> Bhushan Bharat-
>>> R65777; Jia Hongtao-B38951
>>> Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Description for PCI patches using platform driver
>>>
>>> This series of patches are to unify pci initialization code and add PM
>> support
>>> for all 85xx/86xx powerpc boards. But two side effects are introduced
>> by this
>>> mechanism which listed below:
>>>
>>> 1. of_platform_bus_probe() will be called twice but in some cases
>> duplication
>>>    warning occured. We fix this in [PATCH 5/6].
>>>
>>> 2. Edac driver failed to register pci nodes as platform devices. We fix
>> this
>>>    in [PATCH 6/6].
>>
>> With these patches will not the SWIOTLB will not be initialized even if
>> PCI/PCIe demanded?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Bharat
>>
> 
> These patches still have the swiotlb init problem if "ppc_swiotlb_enable" is
> only demanded by PCI/PCIe. One of the purposes of sending out these patches
> is to let us start a discussion for this problem in upstream.

When sending out a patchset like that, label it as [RFC PATCH] (request
for comments), and mention all known problems to be resolved.

-Scott