Re: [PATCH 0/5] PCI: mt7621: remove specific MIPS code from driver

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Wed Nov 17 2021 - 07:41:31 EST


On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 08:08:04AM +0100, Sergio Paracuellos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> MIPS specific code can be removed from driver and put into ralink mt7621
> instead which is a more accurate place to do this. To make this possible
> we need to have access to 'bridge->windows' in 'pcibios_root_bridge_prepare()'
> which has been implemented for ralink mt7621 platform (there is no real
> need to implement this for any other platforms since those ones haven't got
> I/O coherency units). This also allow us to properly enable this driver to
> completely be enabled for COMPILE_TEST. This patchset appoarch:
> - Move windows list splice in 'pci_register_host_bridge()' after function
> 'pcibios_root_bridge_prepare()' is called.
> - Implement 'pcibios_root_bridge_prepare()' for ralink mt7621.
> - Avoid custom MIPs code in pcie-mt7621 driver.
> - Add missing 'MODULE_LICENSE()' to pcie-mt7621 driver to avoid compile test
> module compilation to complain (already sent patch from Yanteng Si that
> I have rewrite commit message and long description a bit.
> - Remove MIPS conditional code from Kconfig.
>
> This patchset also fix some errors reported by Kernel Test Robot about
> implicit mips functions used in driver code and fix errors in driver when
> is compiled as a module [1] (mips:allmodconfig).
>
> There was an ongoing discussion about this here [0] but I preferred to send
> my proposal for better review and understanding:

so what's the plan with this patchset ? Going in as fix, probably via
pci tree ? Or is material for next release ? If the latter can we first
fix the allmodconfig by making the Kconfig symbol bool ?

Thomas.

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