[PCI] Various legacy probing options

[PCI] Various legacy probing options

[Matthew Wilcox]

I'd like to take the logic that checks whether a bus has already
been scanned out of pcibios_scan_root() and push it down into
pci_scan_bus{,_parented}().

The trouble is that pci_scan_bus() already has a check for whether
a bus has been scanned or not and returns the opposite possibiity
(pcibios_scan_root() returns the bus if it exists; pci_scan_bus()
returns NULL if that bus already exists).

Most callers of pci_scan_bus() don't even bother to check the return
value, so they don't care if this changes.  The only caller I can find
that actually cares is arch/i386/pci/irq.c:pirq_peer_trick() [can someone
check me on this?  some of the architectures are a bit strange].

I wonder if this case ever occurs, though.  pirq_peer_trick() is called
from pcibios_irq_init() which is a subsys_initcall.  irq.o is linked
after legacy.o, which contains the subsys_initcall pci_legacy_init(),
which calls pcibios_fixup_peer_bridges() which already iterates over
0-pcibios_last_bus looking for busses.

Are there really broken PCs out there that will have additional bridges
found in the PIRQ tables after pcibios_last_bus?

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Re: [PCI] Various legacy probing options

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> Are there really broken PCs out there that will have additional bridges
> found in the PIRQ tables after pcibios_last_bus?

Probably not, but many of the ancient BIOSes just set the last bus to 0xff.

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