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Commit 88452565 authored by Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar Ivan Kokshaysky Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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PCI: clean up resource alignment management

Done per Linus' request and suggestions. Linus has explained that
better than I'll be able to explain:

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:12:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Actually, before we go any further, there might be a less intrusive
> alternative: add just a couple of flags to the resource flags field (we
> still have something like 8 unused bits on 32-bit), and use those to
> implement a generic "resource_alignment()" routine.
>
> Two flags would do it:
>
>  - IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN: size indicates alignment (regular PCI device
>    resources)
>
>  - IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN: start field is alignment (PCI bus resources
>    during probing)
>
> and then the case of both flags zero (or both bits set) would actually be
> "invalid", and we would also clear the IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN flag when we
> actually allocate the resource (so that we don't use the "start" field as
> alignment incorrectly when it no longer indicates alignment).
>
> That wouldn't be totally gene...
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