Re: [PATCH -v2 0/7] PCI: pcie hotplug related patch

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Feb 02 2012 - 22:50:11 EST


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Kenji Kaneshige
<kaneshige.kenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (2012/02/03 5:39), Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Kenji Kaneshige
>> <kaneshige.kenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Yinghai, Jesse,
>>>
>>> I tested pciehp with your set of patches. I have some comments below.
>>>
>>> (1) I got a following warning message on compiling the patch [5/7].
>>>
>>>    drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c:281: warning:
>>> 'pcie_wait_link_not_active' defined but not used
>>>
>>> (2) I got following warning messages on compiling the patch [6/7]
>>>
>>>    drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c:381: warning: 'pciehp_link_enable'
>>> defined but not used
>>>    drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c:386: warning: 'pciehp_link_disable'
>>> defined but not used
>>>
>>> (3) I've asked Naoki Yanagimoto, who reported that configuration read
>>>    on some hot-added PCIe device returns invalid value, to test the
>>>    patch. Unfortunately, the problem happens with your patch. But
>>>    after some discussion and testing, it turned out that problem doesn't
>>>    happen when the same card with updated bios is used. So it seems the
>>>    problem is in PCIe card side.
>>>
>>> As a result, problems I found are (1) and (2). Please fix those.
>>> Other than that, pciehp seems to work well.
>>>
>>> Tested-by: Kenji Kaneshige<kaneshige.kenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>
>> Great. thanks for confirmation.
>>
>> for (1) and (2), patch 5, and 6 will add some helper functions and
>> they will be used by patch 7.
>>
>> so when patch 7 is applied, there will be no compiling warning anymore.
>
>
> I know that.
> But I think each patch should be compiled without warnings.
> Patch 5/7 and 6/7 are useless without 7/7. How about merging them?

just want to keep patch small and easy to be reviewed.

and I split it to three intentionally.

Thanks

Yinghai
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