Re: PCIe: Xilinx: sdhci-pci: probe() issue

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Hi Bjorn,

Thanks for clarification.

Thanks,
Naveen.


On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Naveen,
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Naveen Kumar Parna
> <pnaveenkos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi ,
>>
>> I have a Verilog image & hardware which provides a PCIe interface with
>> two BAR’s(BAR0 & BAR1) to host.
>>
>> BAR0 is having customized UART, GPIO and 1-wire prom modules. These
>> modules are accessed via customized PCIe interface driver.
>>
>> BAR1 is having SD Host controller as per SD Specifications. Here
>> requirement is such that we should use Linux kernel stack drivers
>> (sdhci.ko & sdhci-pci.ko).
>>
>>
>> Here the issue is only one driver’s probe() function gets executed
>> i.e. either customized PCIe driver or sdhci-pci.ko.
>
> The PCI infrastructure is designed such that a bus/device/function
> address identifies a single device.  To that device, we can attach a
> single driver, which manages all BARs on that device.  There is no
> provision for attaching one driver to BAR0 and a different driver to
> BAR1.
>
> To manage the device you describe, you'd have to have a driver that
> claims the entire PCI device, including both BARs.  That driver would
> internally deal with the UART, GPIO, 1-wire prom, and SD host
> controller modules.
>
> Bjorn
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