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; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; >> ga...@kernel.crashing.org >> Cc: Li Yang-R58472; b...@kernel.crashing.org; 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: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; ga...@kernel.crashing.org >>> Cc: Li Yang-R58472; b...@kernel.crashing.org; 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 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
