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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
Cc: Dilip Kota <eswara.kota@linux.intel.com>,
	jingoohan1@gmail.com, gustavo.pimentel@synopsys.com,
	lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com, robh@kernel.org,
	martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	hch@infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andriy.shevchenko@intel.com,
	cheol.yong.kim@intel.com, chuanhua.lei@linux.intel.com,
	qi-ming.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] dwc: PCI: intel: Intel PCIe RC controller driver
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 04:26:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190905112610.GB10199@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190905104517.GX9720@e119886-lin.cambridge.arm.com>

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 11:45:18AM +0100, Andrew Murray wrote:
> > +        depends on OF
> > +        select PCIE_DW_HOST
> > +        help
> > +          Say 'Y' here to enable support for Intel AHB/AXI PCIe Host
> > +	  controller driver.
> > +	  The Intel PCIe controller is based on the Synopsys Designware
> > +	  pcie core and therefore uses the Designware core functions to
> > +	  implement the driver.
> 
> I can see this description is similar to others in the same Kconfig,
> however I'm not sure what value a user gains by knowing implementation
> details - it's helpful to know that PCIE_INTEL_AXI is based on the
> Designware core, but is it helpful to know that the Designware core
> functions are used?

Not really.  What would be extremely useful for a user is what Intel
SOC contains this IP block, or the fact that most of those were
actually produced by Lantiq, a company bought by Intel.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-05 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-04 10:10 [PATCH v3 0/2] PCI: Add Intel PCIe Driver and respective dt-binding yaml file Dilip Kota
2019-09-04 10:10 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: PCI: intel: Add YAML schemas for the PCIe RC controller Dilip Kota
2019-09-05  2:23   ` Chuan Hua, Lei
2019-09-06 10:39     ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-05 20:31   ` Martin Blumenstingl
2019-09-06  3:22     ` Chuan Hua, Lei
2019-09-06 17:17       ` Martin Blumenstingl
2019-09-06 17:48         ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-09-07  1:48           ` Ivan Gorinov
2019-09-06  9:19     ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-09-09  6:52       ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-17 18:33       ` Rob Herring
2019-09-18  6:48         ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-17 18:40   ` Rob Herring
2019-09-18  6:56     ` Dilip Kota
     [not found]       ` <b7e549bb-b46c-c393-50ac-9ef3b198fd49@linux.intel.com>
2019-10-03  6:35         ` Fwd: " Dilip Kota
2019-09-04 10:10 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] dwc: PCI: intel: Intel PCIe RC controller driver Dilip Kota
2019-09-04 13:05   ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-09-06 10:39     ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-05  2:30   ` Chuan Hua, Lei
2019-09-05 10:45   ` Andrew Murray
2019-09-05 11:26     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-09-05 11:40     ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-09-12  7:01       ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-06 10:58     ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-06 11:20       ` Andrew Murray
2019-09-09  6:51         ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-09  8:31           ` Andrew Murray
2019-09-10  8:08             ` Dilip Kota
     [not found]             ` <22857835-1f98-b251-c94b-16b4b0a6dba2@linux.intel.com>
2019-09-11 10:30               ` Andrew Murray
2019-09-12  6:58                 ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-12  8:25                   ` Andrew Murray
2019-09-12  9:23                     ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-12 10:49                       ` Gustavo Pimentel
2019-09-13  9:20                         ` Dilip Kota
2019-09-13 10:12                           ` andriy.shevchenko
2019-09-16  3:03                             ` Dilip Kota

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