Re: [PATCH 4/4] pci: remove min_size for hotplug bridge

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Tue Oct 27 2009 - 05:21:03 EST


Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> revert
>
> | commit 28760489a3f1e136c5ae8581c0fa8f63511f2f4c
> | Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | Date: Wed Sep 9 14:09:24 2009 -0700
> |
> | PCI: pcie: Ensure hotplug ports have a minimum number of resources
>
> we don't need this trick anymore. the bridge BAR will be updated automatically

How so? We can't reassign resources after they have been allocated as someone
might be using them. If the firmware doesn't reserve the resource for a hotplug
we need to do it ourselves.


Eric
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