[RFC 00/15] PCI: turn some __weak functions into callbacks

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Aug 21 16:14:51 AEST 2018


On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:26:30PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Hi Bjorn and others,
> 
> Triggered by Christoph's patches, I had another go at converting
> all of the remaining pci host bridge implementations to be based
> on pci_alloc_host_bridge and a separate registration function.

I really like the idea behind this series.

> I'm adding a bit of duplication into the less maintained code
> here, but it makes everything more consistent, and gives an
> easy place to hook up callback functions etc.

I wonder if there is a way to avoid some of that by adding a few
more helpers, but even without the helpers that approach looks
ok to me.

Do you have a git tree somewhere to play around with the changes?


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