On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 09:28 +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 09:44:00AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:

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The first patch in this series introduces the following 4 helper

functions to

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the PCI core:

* pci_request_mem_regions()
* pci_request_io_regions()
* pci_release_mem_regions()
* pci_release_io_regions()

which encapsulate the request and release of a PCI device's memory or

I/O

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bars.

The subsequent patches convert the drivers, which use the
pci_request_selected_regions(pdev, 
      pci_select_bars(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM), name); 
and similar pattern to use the new interface.

This was suggested by Christoph Hellwig in
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2016-May/004570.html an

d

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tested on kernel v4.6 with NVMe.

Btw, as I've seen already Jeff applying the Intel Ethernet patch to his
tree, I think this should go via the PCI tree as the build dependency is
the PCI patch.

Bjorn should pick up the entire series, I just applied the Intel patch (and
dependent patches) so we could touch test it.