On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 12:59:28PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 05:21:34PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The theme of this set is decoupling the "AMD node" concept from the > > legacy northbridge support. > > > > Additionally, AMD System Management Network (SMN) access code is > > decoupled and expanded too. > > > > Patches 1-3 begin reducing the scope of AMD_NB. > > > > Patches 4-9 begin moving generic AMD node support out of AMD_NB. > > > > Patches 10-13 move SMN support out of AMD_NB and do some refactoring. > > > > Patch 14 has HSMP reuse SMN functionality. > > > > Patches 15-16 address userspace access to SMN. > > > > I say "begin" above because there is more to do here. Ultimately, AMD_NB > > should only be needed for code used on legacy systems with northbridges. > > Also, any and all SMN users in the kernel need to be updated to use the > > central SMN code. Local solutions should be avoided. > > Glad to see many of the PCI device IDs going away; thanks for working > on that! > > The use of pci_get_slot() and pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() is not > ideal since all those pci_get_*() interfaces are kind of ugly in my > opinion, and using them means we have to encode topology details in > the kernel. But this still seems like a big improvement. > Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully, we'll come to some improved solution. :) Can you please elaborate on your concern? Is it about saying "thing X is always at SBDF A:B:C.D" or something else? Thanks, Yazen