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RE: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the switch structure

From "Levy, Amir (Jer)" <amir.jer.levy@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject RE: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the switch structure
Date 2017-05-21 07:40 +0200
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On Sun, May 21 2017, 07:47 AM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 05:39:08PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > +
> > +	default:
> > +		sw->generation = 1;
> > +		break;
> 
> If someone adds an entry for, say, a new TB3 controller to nhi_ids[] but forgets
> to update this function, the controller is assigned the wrong generation
> number.  It might be better to make TB3 the default and list each TB1
> controller instead since it's less likely for Intel to introduce an older gen chip.
> 
> Generally I think it's problematic to require that multiple files are touched
> whenever a new controller is added.  Isn't the generation number or link speed
> (10/20/40) stored in some register in PCI config space (VSEC 0x1234) or TB
> config space?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lukas
> 

How about setting information, that isn't available from PCI, in pci_device_id.driver_data when initializing nhi_ids[]?

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[PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the switch structure Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-18 16:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> - 2017-05-21 06:50 +0200
    RE: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure "Levy, Amir (Jer)" <amir.jer.levy@intel.com> - 2017-05-21 07:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> - 2017-05-21 07:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-21 09:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-21 10:10 +0200
            RE: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure "Levy, Amir (Jer)" <amir.jer.levy@intel.com> - 2017-05-21 10:10 +0200
              RE: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure "Bernat, Yehezkel" <yehezkel.bernat@intel.com> - 2017-05-21 12:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-21 12:50 +0200
                RE: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure "Bernat, Yehezkel" <yehezkel.bernat@intel.com> - 2017-05-21 13:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-21 13:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 18/24] thunderbolt: Store Thunderbolt generation in the  switch structure Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-21 12:50 +0200

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