From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756082Ab1AKOK6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:10:58 -0500 Received: from vpn.id2.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:45043 "EHLO vpn.id2.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755469Ab1AKOK4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:10:56 -0500 Message-Id: <4D2C72FA020000780002BB58@vpn.id2.novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.1 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:10:50 +0000 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Ian Campbell" Cc: "Stefano Stabellini" , "jeremy@goop.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "konrad.wilk@oracle.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use PCI interfaces to request IO and MEM resources on platform device. References: <1294746628-20396-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> <4D2C5FA5020000780002BB21@vpn.id2.novell.com> <1294750884.3831.5866.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> In-Reply-To: <1294750884.3831.5866.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> On 11.01.11 at 14:01, Ian Campbell wrote: > The old way was correct circa 2.6.37-rc5 but broken in 2.6.37 final, > there were a bunch of (reverts of) PCI resource changes in that window, > If I had to make a guess I'd say it was something in there which did it. Was it perhaps broken somewhere between -rc5 and -final, but not in -final itself? >> I'm mainly asking because if it really addresses some problem, >> then unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/platform-pci/platform-pci.c >> in -unstable should probably get updated too. > > Assuming the pci_* interfaces exist back as far as we care about for > those drivers then I don't see why not to apply it. I checked back to .5, where they exist; the question is - how far back do we care? Jan