[Patch v3 01/11] arch/powerpc/pci: Fix compiling error for mpc85xx_edac

Scott Wood oss at buserror.net
Sat Aug 6 07:57:56 AEST 2016


On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 21:20 +0000, york sun wrote:
> On 08/05/2016 02:09 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 20:29 +0000, york sun wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 08/04/2016 08:43 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Does the driver really need to use these routines? They're meant for
> > > > use
> > > > early in boot, before PCI is setup.
> > > > 
> > > > AFAICS this is just a regular driver, so when it's probed the PCI
> > > > devices should have already been scanned. In which case
> > > > pci_get_device()
> > > > could work couldn't it? (I see other edac drivers doing that).
> > > I am trying to fix this but need some help. We are dealing with PCIe
> > > controller here. Does it have a bus number assigned at this point? If
> > > yes, how can I find it? I seem not able to find out where the
> > > platform_data is filled as well. Can someone kindly point it out to me?
> > 
> > The platform data comes from add_err_dev() in
> > arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c.
> > 
> Thanks, Scott.
> 
> When add_err_dev() is called, pci is not scanned, is using 
> early_find_capability() justified?

The edac driver is registered with a normal device-level initcall.  The PCI
scanning appears to happen at the subsys initcall level.

-Scott



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