Re: [PATCH] pci, dmar: Update dmar units devices list during hotplug

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 16:15 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I think I'd vote for saving some kind of representation of the bus
> hierarchy, we probably don't need to list every possible individual
> device.  Leaving a broken pointer around to be matched up and restored
> later just seems like a continuation of an idea that was bad to begin
> with.  Thanks, 

I agree. We should just process the original ATSR information in
dmar_find_matched_drhd_unit(), rather than comparing with a list of
possibly stale pointers.

I don't quite understand why the list of PCI devices was *ever* done
like that.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx                              Intel Corporation

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