3.4-rc3 compile failed on IBM Power6

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 25 14:10:42 EST 2012


On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 09:50 +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> In order to make iommu.c irrelative to CONFIG_EEH, we might figure out
> the PE number of the PCI device during PCI probe time. Here're some
> rough thoughts about the rework.
> 
>         - Introduce additional field "int pe_num" to "struct dev_archdata".
>           That would be traced like: (struct pci_dev)->(struct device dev)
>           ->(struct dev_archdata archdata).
>         - During the PCI probe time (maybe pci_fixup_early), we can figure
>           out the PE number.
> 
> Then we can retrieve the PE number of PCI device from "int pe_num" and needn't
> care CONFIG_EEH has been turned on or off. I'm not sure Ben has any comments
> on the idea? 

Just select EEH from pseries Kconfig, no point in keeping that a user visible option.

Cheers,
Ben.




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