From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:18:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2 07/27] PCI: Add software-emulated host bridge In-Reply-To: <1359399397-29729-8-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> References: <1359399397-29729-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1359399397-29729-8-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <201301282018.17714.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Monday 28 January 2013, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > From: Thierry Reding > > [Thomas Petazzoni: > - Simplify capabilities handling. > - Move to a separate file. > - Fix mask used when writing a 4 bytes value.] > > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Not even a description why this is needed? This patch (together with patch 8) seems like the most controversial one of the series, so you should better provide a really good reason why we would emulate something in software rather than using whatever hardware is there. Arnd