[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V3 1/2] Drivers/PCI: Export pcie_has_flr() interface
Hi, On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 10:33:02PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote: > On 9/9/2018 2:59 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >I noticed pcie_has_flr() has been recently exported in upstream Linux: > >https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2d2917f7747805a1f4188672f308d82a8ba01700 > > > >Are there more changes / cleanups planned to these interfaces, as mentioned > >last year? > > > >(context: xen-pciback reset/do_flr features upstreaming, which kind of > >stalled last year when pcie_has_flr() wasn't exported at the time) > > Exporting pcie_has_flr() is a very simple change which could have been done > by the XEN porting effort. > > Maybe, the right question is what is so special about XEN reset? > > What feature PCI core is missing to support XEN FLR reset that caused > the effort to stall? > Well one of the reasons probably was because Christoph was planning to deprecate the pcie_has_flr() functionality.. https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-12/msg01057.html https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-12/msg01252.html But now that pcie_has_flr() is exported and available I guess it's fine to continue using it also for xen-pciback :) Thanks, -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
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