Re: qustion about eeh_add_virt_device

On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 16:54 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

Hello,

Hello, sorry for the delayed response.

At the suggestion of Christoph Hellwig, I am working on inlining the
functions stored in the err_handler field of a pci_driver structure into
the pci_driver structure itself.  A number of functions in the file
arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c have code like:

        if (!driver->err_handler ||
            !driver->err_handler->error_detected) {
                eeh_pcid_put(dev);
                return NULL;
        }

This I would just convert to:

        if (!driver->error_detected) {
                eeh_pcid_put(dev);
                return NULL;
        }

But I am not sure what is best to do about eeh_add_virt_device, which
contains:

                if (driver->err_handler)
		        return NULL;

Should I try to find a subfield of the err_handler that is guaranteed to
be there if anything is there?  Or could the test just be dropped, leaving
a direct return NULL?

I believe the test can be dropped.

- Russell

thanks,
julia