[PATCH v2 01/22] PCI/MSI: Clean up struct msi_chip argument
Yijing Wang
wangyijing at huawei.com
Fri Sep 26 11:58:54 EST 2014
On 2014/9/25 15:15, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:14:11AM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote:
>> Msi_chip functions setup_irq/teardown_irq rarely use msi_chip
>> argument.
>
> That's not true. Out of the four drivers that you modify two use the
> parameter. And the two that don't probably should be using it too.
>
> 50% is not "rarely". =)
>
>> We can look up msi_chip pointer by the device pointer
>> or irq number, so clean up msi_chip argument.
>
> I don't like this particular change. The idea was to keep the API object
> oriented so that drivers wouldn't have to know where to get the MSI chip
> from. It also makes it more resilient against code reorganizations since
> the core code is the only place that needs to know where to get the chip
> from.
Hm, ok, Thomas also don't like this change, I will drop this one, thanks.
Thanks!
Yijing.
>
> Thierry
>
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Thanks!
Yijing
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