On Saturday 14 January 2023 17:41:25 Pali Rohár wrote: > People are reporting that pci-mvebu.c driver does not work with recent > mainline kernel. There are more bugs which prevents its for daily usage. > So lets mark it as broken for now, until somebody would be able to fix it > in mainline kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > Bjorn: I would really appreciate if you take this change and send it in > pull request for v6.2 release. There is no reason to wait more longer. Ping? Any comments? > > I'm periodically receiving emails that driver does not work correctly > anymore, PCIe cards are not detected or that they crashes during boot. > > Some of the issues are handled in patches which are waiting on the list for > a long time and nobody cares for them. Some others needs investigation. > > I'm really tired in replying to those user emails as I cannot do more in > this area. I have asked more people for help but either there were only > promises without any action for more than year or simple no direction how > to move forward or what to do with it. > > So mark this driver as broken. Users would see the real current state > and hopefully will stop reporting me old or new bugs. > --- > drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig b/drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig > index 1569d9a3ada0..b4a4d84a358b 100644 > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config PCI_MVEBU > depends on MVEBU_MBUS > depends on ARM > depends on OF > + depends on BROKEN > select PCI_BRIDGE_EMUL > help > Add support for Marvell EBU PCIe controller. This PCIe controller > -- > 2.20.1 >
