On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:49:51AM +0530, Vidya Sagar wrote:
> Export pcie_bus_config to enable host controller drivers setting it to a
> specific configuration be able to build as loadable modules
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vidya Sagar <vidyas@nvidia.com>
> ---
> Changes since [v4]:
> * None
> 
> Changes since [v3]:
> * None
> 
> Changes since [v2]:
> * None
> 
> Changes since [v1]:
> * This is a new patch in v2 series
> 
>  drivers/pci/pci.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

It doesn't look to me like this is something that host controller
drivers are supposed to change. This is set via the pci kernel command-
line parameter, meaning it's a way of tuning the system configuration.
Drivers should not be allowed to override this after the fact.

Why do we need to set this?

Thierry

> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> index f5ff01dc4b13..731f78508601 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ unsigned long pci_hotplug_mem_size = DEFAULT_HOTPLUG_MEM_SIZE;
>  unsigned long pci_hotplug_bus_size = DEFAULT_HOTPLUG_BUS_SIZE;
>  
>  enum pcie_bus_config_types pcie_bus_config = PCIE_BUS_DEFAULT;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pcie_bus_config);
>  
>  /*
>   * The default CLS is used if arch didn't set CLS explicitly and not
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>