Gustavo,

On 27/08/19 6:55 PM, Andrew Murray wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 12:08:40AM +0000, Xiaowei Bao wrote:
>>
>>
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>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] PCI: layerscape: Modify the MSIX to the
>>> doorbell way
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 07:22:39PM +0800, Xiaowei Bao wrote:
>>>> The layerscape platform use the doorbell way to trigger MSIX interrupt
>>>> in EP mode.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have no problems with this patch, however...
>>>
>>> Are you able to add to this message a reason for why you are making this
>>> change? Did dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq not work when func_no != 0? Or did
>>> it work yet dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq_doorbell is more efficient?
>>
>> The fact is that, this driver is verified in ls1046a platform of NXP before, 
>> and ls1046a don't
>> support MSIX feature, so I set the msix_capable of pci_epc_features struct 
>> is false,
>> but in other platform, e.g. ls1088a, it support the MSIX feature, I verified 
>> the MSIX
>> feature in ls1088a, it is not OK, so I changed to another way. Thanks.
> 
> Right, so the existing pci-layerscape-ep.c driver never supported MSIX yet it
> erroneously had a switch case statement to call dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq 
> which
> would never get used.
> 
> Now that we're adding a platform with MSIX support the existing
> dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq doesn't work (for this platform) so we are adding a
> different method.

Gustavo, can you confirm dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq() works for designware as it
didn't work for both me and Xiaowei?

Thanks
Kishon

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