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PCI/PM: Add comments for PME poll support for PCIe
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There are comments on why PME poll support is necessary for PCI
devices, but not for PCIe devices.  That may lead to misunderstanding
that PME poll is only necessary for PCI devices.  So add comments
related to PCIe PME poll to make it more clear.

The content of comments comes from the changelog of commit:

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Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Huang Ying authored and Bjorn Helgaas committed Nov 7, 2012
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28 changes: 19 additions & 9 deletions drivers/pci/pci.c
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Expand Up @@ -1578,15 +1578,25 @@ void pci_pme_active(struct pci_dev *dev, bool enable)

pci_write_config_word(dev, dev->pm_cap + PCI_PM_CTRL, pmcsr);

/* PCI (as opposed to PCIe) PME requires that the device have
its PME# line hooked up correctly. Not all hardware vendors
do this, so the PME never gets delivered and the device
remains asleep. The easiest way around this is to
periodically walk the list of suspended devices and check
whether any have their PME flag set. The assumption is that
we'll wake up often enough anyway that this won't be a huge
hit, and the power savings from the devices will still be a
win. */
/*
* PCI (as opposed to PCIe) PME requires that the device have
* its PME# line hooked up correctly. Not all hardware vendors
* do this, so the PME never gets delivered and the device
* remains asleep. The easiest way around this is to
* periodically walk the list of suspended devices and check
* whether any have their PME flag set. The assumption is that
* we'll wake up often enough anyway that this won't be a huge
* hit, and the power savings from the devices will still be a
* win.
*
* Although PCIe uses in-band PME message instead of PME# line
* to report PME, PME does not work for some PCIe devices in
* reality. For example, there are devices that set their PME
* status bits, but don't really bother to send a PME message;
* there are PCI Express Root Ports that don't bother to
* trigger interrupts when they receive PME messages from the
* devices below. So PME poll is used for PCIe devices too.
*/

if (dev->pme_poll) {
struct pci_pme_device *pme_dev;
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