On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 10:42:33PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Yes please. Because this is the usual kernel coding style of calling a
> function (or a loop which has some result in this case) and testing that
> result immediately after the function call.

Done.

> You say "correct" as there is a special one. But the text before it says
> they're "functionally the same" wrt DF/SMN access so it sounds to me
> like we wanna map the first one we find and ignore the others.
> 
> I.e., we wanna say
> 
> "... so the DF/SMN interfaces get mapped to the *first* PCI root and the
> others N-1 ignored."
> 
> Or am I misreading this?
> 
> Thx.
> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
> Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

Your understanding is correct.  It's more so that the following DF/SMN
interface gets mapped correctly.
                /*
                 * If there are more PCI root devices than data fabric/
                 * system management network interfaces, then the (N)
                 * PCI roots per DF/SMN interface are functionally the
                 * same (for DF/SMN access) and N-1 are redundant.  N-1
                 * PCI roots should be skipped per DF/SMN interface so
                 * the following DF/SMN interfaces get mapped to
                 * correct PCI roots.
                 */
Does that read clearer?

-- 
Brian Woods

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