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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG: add legacy pci conf functions
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:07:27 -0500
From: Tony Camuso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Greg KH wrote:

+struct pci_ops pci_legacy_ops = {
+       .read =         pci_ops_legacy_read,
+       .write =        pci_ops_legacy_write,
+};

This whole structure is never used in this patch, why add it now?

It gets used by the routine pcibios_fix_bus_scan_quirk in
arch/x86/pci/common.c


 /*
  * Before we decide to use direct hardware access mechanisms, we try to do some
@@ -258,18 +284,28 @@ void __init pci_direct_init(int type)
 {
        if (type == 0)
                return;
-       printk(KERN_INFO "PCI: Using configuration type %d\n", type);
-       if (type == 1)
+       if (type == 1) {
                raw_pci_ops = &pci_direct_conf1;
-       else
+               pci_legacy_conf = &pci_direct_conf1;
+       } else {
                raw_pci_ops = &pci_direct_conf2;
+               pci_legacy_conf = &pci_direct_conf2;

Why have two pointers to the same thing?  What is pci_legacy_conf going
to be used for?  Why not just use raw_pci_ops?

thanks,

greg k-h

The way the code works today, when raw_pci_ops is set to use mmconf,
it is platform-wide. Legacy pci config reads are not available.

I would have simply used the pci_direct_conf1, but because there can
also be a pci_direct_conf2, I thought it best to abstract it as
pci_legacy_conf.

A pointer to struct pci_ops pci_legacy_ops data is written into the
pci_bus.ops field for buses that must use legacy pci config access.

The other busses can continue to use the pointer to the mmconf pci_ops.



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