On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 09:44:00AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > The first patch in this series introduces the following 4 helper functions to > the PCI core: > > * pci_request_mem_regions() > * pci_request_io_regions() > * pci_release_mem_regions() > * pci_release_io_regions() > > which encapsulate the request and release of a PCI device's memory or I/O > bars. > > The subsequent patches convert the drivers, which use the > pci_request_selected_regions(pdev, > pci_select_bars(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM), name); > and similar pattern to use the new interface. > > This was suggested by Christoph Hellwig in > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2016-May/004570.html and > tested on kernel v4.6 with NVMe. > Btw, as I've seen already Jeff applying the Intel Ethernet patch to his tree, I think this should go via the PCI tree as the build dependency is the PCI patch. Thanks, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
