Hi, On Thursday 09 March 2017 08:35 PM, Niklas Cassel wrote: > > > On 03/09/2017 03:48 PM, Niklas Cassel wrote: >> On 03/09/2017 07:39 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >>> dwc has 2 dbi address space labeled dbics and dbics2. The existing >>> helper to access dbi address space can access only dbics. However >>> dbics2 has to be accessed for programming the BAR registers in the >>> case of EP mode. This is in preparation for adding EP mode support >>> to dwc driver. >> Hello Kishon >> >> I don't really like the idea of adding an extra argument to every existing read/write. >> Will not a read/write using dbi2 be quite uncommon compared to a read/write >> using dbi? >> >> How about something like this: >> >> void __dw_pcie_writel(struct dw_pcie *pci, void __iomem *base, u32 reg, u32 val) >> { >> if (pci->ops->writel_dbi) >> pci->ops->writel_dbi(pci, base, reg, val); >> else >> writel(val, base + reg); >> } >> >> #define dw_pcie_writel_dbi(pci, reg, val) __dw_pcie_writel(pci, pci->dbi_base, reg, val) >> #define dw_pcie_writel_dbi2(pci, reg, val) __dw_pcie_writel(pci, pci->dbi_base2, reg, val) > > Perhaps make dw_pcie_writel_dbi2 a function rather than a define, > so we can return an error if pci->dbi_base2 == NULL. Should we return an error? We don't return error for dbi_base either. I think it should be sufficient to return errors while populating dbi_base or dbi_base2. Otherwise it's a bug and should result in abort. Joao? Thanks Kishon