On Monday 30 January 2012, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

quoted

+/*
+ * Create a virtual mapping cookie for a port on a given PCI device.
+ * Do not call this directly, it exists to make it easier for architectures
+ * to override.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_GENERIC_PCI_IOPORT_MAP
+extern void __iomem *__pci_ioport_map(struct pci_dev *dev, unsigned long port,
+                                     unsigned int nr);
+#else
+static inline void __iomem *__pci_ioport_map(struct pci_dev *dev,
+                              unsigned long port, unsigned int nr)
+{
+       return ioport_map(port, nr);
+}
+#endif

      Arnd

It would be nicer in that it would
make the kernel a bit smaller for generic architectures
but this would need to go into a separate header:
it depends on io.h and io.h depends on pci_iomap.h.

Adding extra dependencies is not good here, I agree.
Maybe  a better solution is to use a macro instead of an inline
function then:

#define  __pci_ioport_map(dev, port, nr) ioport_map(port, nr)

In general, macros should be avoided, but I think it's the
best tradeoff in this case.

	Arnd