Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2017-12-08

Re: [PATCH V3 2/7] PCI: Export pci_find_host_bridge()

From: Manikanta Maddireddy <hidden>
Date: 2017-12-08 08:37:54
Also in: linux-devicetree, linux-pci, linux-tegra


On 06-Dec-17 1:34 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 02:50:02PM +0530, Manikanta Maddireddy wrote:
quoted
PCI subsystem pass pci_bus pointer to pci_ops callback functions, Tegra
s/PCI subsystem pass/The PCI subsystem passes a/
s/, Tegra/.  The Tegra/
quoted
host driver use pci_find_host_bridge() to get pci_host_bridge from pci_bus.
s/use/uses/
quoted
Export pci_find_host_bridge() to allow Tegra PCIe driver to be compiled as
loadable kernel module.
s/allow Tegra/allow the Tegra/
s/loadable/a loadable/

But why do you need pci_find_host_bridge() at all?  Most drivers use
the pci_bus.sysdata pointer for this purpose, e.g., see db271747a04d
("PCI: mediatek: Use bus->sysdata to get host private data")
I will send a patch to use bus->sysdata instead of pci_find_host_bridge().
quoted
Signed-off-by: Manikanta Maddireddy <redacted>
---
V2:
* commit message update
V3:
* EXPORT_SYMBOL is changed to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

 drivers/pci/host-bridge.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c b/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c
index add66236215c..b8c0fcde9bd7 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ struct pci_host_bridge *pci_find_host_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus)
 
 	return to_pci_host_bridge(root_bus->bridge);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_find_host_bridge);
 
 struct device *pci_get_host_bridge_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
 {
-- 
2.1.4
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