[PATCH] powerpc/powernv/pci: Drop VF MPS fixup

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu May 19 22:38:40 AEST 2022


Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> writes:
> Le 02/09/2020 à 05:51, Oliver O'Halloran a écrit :
>> The MPS field in the VF config space is marked as reserved in current
>> versions of the SR-IOV spec. In other words, this fixup doesn't do
>> anything.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall at gmail.com>
>
> A lot of cleanup patches from Oliver were merged in Septembre 2020 but 
> not this one.
>
> Any reason ?

It wasn't clear to me that it's safe to remove. The commit that added it
seemed to think it was important.

The fact that it's out-of-spec doesn't mean we don't have some hardware
somewhere that relies on that.

cheers


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