Re: [RFC 01/32] Kconfig: introduce and depend on LEGACY_PCI
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-12-28 12:54:52
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Em Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:58:55 +0100 Niklas Schnelle [off-list ref] escreveu:
On Tue, 2021-12-28 at 10:15 +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:quoted
Em Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:21:23 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref] escreveu:quoted
On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 05:42:46PM +0100, Niklas Schnelle wrote:quoted
--- a/drivers/pci/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/pci/Kconfig@@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ menuconfig PCI if PCI +config LEGACY_PCI + bool "Enable support for legacy PCI devices" + depends on HAVE_PCI + help + This option enables support for legacy PCI devices. This includes + PCI devices attached directly or via a bridge on a PCI Express bus. + It also includes compatibility features on PCI Express devices which + make use of legacy I/O spaces.This Kconfig doesn't seem what it is needed there, as this should be an arch-dependent feature, and not something that the poor user should be aware if a given architecture supports it or not. Also, the above will keep causing warnings or errors with randconfigs. Also, the "depends on HAVE_CPI" is bogus, as PCI already depends on HAVE_PCI:Ah yes you're right.quoted
menuconfig PCI bool "PCI support" depends on HAVE_PCI help This option enables support for the PCI local bus, including support for PCI-X and the foundations for PCI Express support. Say 'Y' here unless you know what you are doing. So, instead, I would expect that a new HAVE_xxx option would be added at arch/*/Kconfig, like: config X86 ... select HAVE_PCI_DIRECT_IO It would also make sense to document it at Documentation/features/.I'll look into that, thanks.quoted
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All you really care about is the "legacy" I/O spaces here, this isn't tied to PCI specifically at all, right? So why not just have a OLD_STYLE_IO config option or something like that, to show that it's the i/o functions we care about here, not PCI at all? And maybe not call it "old" or "legacy" as time constantly goes forward, just describe it as it is, "DIRECT_IO"?Agreed. HAVE_PCI_DIRECT_IO (or something similar) seems a more appropriate name for it. Thanks, MauroHmm, I might be missing something here but that sounds a lot like the HAS_IOPORT option added in patch 02. We add both LEGACY_PCI and HAS_IOPORT to differentiate between two cases. HAS_IOPORT is for PC-style devices that are not on a PCI card while LEGACY_PCI is for PCI drivers that require port I/O.
I didn't look at the other patches on this series, but why it is needed to deal with them on a separate way? Won't "PCI" and "HAS_IOPORT" be enough? I mean, are there any architecture where HAVE_PCI=y and HAS_IOPORT=y where LEGACY_PCI shall be "n"?
This includes pre-PCIe devices as well as PCIe devices which require features like I/O spaces. The "legacy" naming is comes from the PCIe spec which in section 2.1.1.2 says "PCI Express supports I/O Space for compatibility with legacy devices which require their use. Future revisions of this specification may deprecate the use of I/O Space."
I would still avoid calling it LEGACY_PCI, as this sounds too generic. I didn't read the PCI/PCIe specs, but I suspect that are a lot more features that were/will be deprecated on PCI specs as time goes by. So, I would, instead, use something like PCI_LEGACY_IO_SPACE or HAVE_PCI_LEGACY_IO_SPACE, in order to let it clear what "legacy" means.
These two separate config options allow us to compile without support for these legacy PCI devices even on a system where inb()/outb() and friends are required for some PC style devices and for example ACPI.
Hmm... why this patch make SND_BT87X dependent on LEGACY_PCI?
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@@ -172,6 +177,7 @@ config SND_AZT3328 config SND_BT87X tristate "Bt87x Audio Capture" + depends on LEGACY_PCI select SND_PCM help If you want to record audio from TV cards based on
I couldn't find any usage of inb/outb & friends on it:
$ grep -E '(inb|outb|inw|outw|inl|outl)\b' ./sound/pci/bt87x.c
It uses, instead, readl/writel:
static inline u32 snd_bt87x_readl(struct snd_bt87x *chip, u32 reg)
{
return readl(chip->mmio + reg);
}
static inline void snd_bt87x_writel(struct snd_bt87x *chip, u32 reg, u32 value)
{
writel(value, chip->mmio + reg);
}
I failed to see what makes it different from VIDEO_BT848 and
DVB_BT8XX drivers. They all support exactly the same chipset:
Brooktree/Conexant BT8xx. On those devices, depending on the exact
model, up to three separate interfaces are provided, each one with
its own Kconfig var:
- audio I/O (SND_BT87X);
- video I/O (VIDEO_BT848);
- MPEG-TS I/O (DVB_BT8XX).
Thanks,
Mauro