Hi David, On Friday 30 September 2016 09:01 PM, David Marchand wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com> > wrote: >> (I rebased these over HEAD 7b3c4f3) >> >> These patches were initially part of Jan's original series on SoC >> Framework ([1],[2]). An update to that series, without these patches, >> was posted here [3]. >> >> Main motivation for these is aim of introducing a non-PCI centric >> subsystem in EAL. As of now the first usecase is SoC, but not limited to >> it. >> >> 4 patches in this series are independent of each other, as well as SoC >> framework. All these focus on generalizing some structure or functions >> present with the PCI specific code to EAL Common area (or splitting a >> function to be more userful). > > Those patches move linux specifics (binding pci devices using sysfs) > to common infrastucture. > We have no proper hotplug support on bsd, but if we had some common > code we should at least try to make the apis generic. >
I am not sure if I understood your point well. Just to confirm - you are stating that the movement done in the patches might not suit BSD. Probably you are talking about (Patch 3/4 and 4/4). Is my understanding correct? So, movement to just Linux area is not enough? I am not well versed with BSD way of doing something similar so if someone can point it out, I can integrate that. (I will investigate it at my end as well). This patchset makes the PCI->EAL movement *only* for Linux for sysfs bind/unbind. (I should add this to cover letter, at the least). - Shreyansh
