Re: [PATCH v11 08/10] OF: PCI: Add support for parsing PCI host bridge resources from DT

[Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:56:37AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2014 12:43:17 Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > > 
> > > From e798af4fc2f664d1aff7e863489b8298f90e716e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
> > > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:46:01 +0200
> > > Subject: [PATCH] OF: PCI: Fix creation of mem-mapped pci host bridges
> > > 
> > > The pci host bridge was not created if io_base was not set when
> > > calling of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources(). This is esp. the case for
> > > mem-mapped io (IORESOURCE_MEM). This patch fixes this. Function
> > > parameter io_base is optional now.
> > 
> > I think the message is misleading. What you want to do is make io_base
> > optional for the case where the PCI host bridge only expects to have only
> > IORESOURCE_MEM ranges and doesn't care about IORESOURCE_IO ones.
> > 
> > As I'm going to touch this area again to address a comment from Bjorn,
> > do you mind if I roll this patch into mine with your Signed-off-by and
> > the mention that you have made io_base optional?
> 
> I think the best way to deal with this is to move the check for 
> io_base down into the place where it is used: As long as the DT only
> specifies IORESOURCE_MEM windows, we don't need to look at io_base,
> but if the host controller driver does not support IORESOURCE_IO
> while the DT specifies it, I guess it would be nice to return an
> error.

Because the detection of IORESOURCE_{IO|MEM} happens in a loop I still
need to initialise the io_base to some invalid value before going into the
for_each_of_pci_range() {...} body. I have added a check in v12 for the
lack of valid io_base pointer if IORESOURCE_IO range is found.

Best regards,
Liviu

> 
> 	Arnd
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