On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 09:52:58AM -0500, Frank Li wrote:

quoted

@@ -127,6 +150,10 @@ struct pci_epf_bar {
 	size_t		mem_size;
 	enum pci_barno	barno;
 	int		flags;
+
+	/* Optional sub-range mapping */
+	unsigned int	num_submap;
+	struct pci_epf_bar_submap	*submap;

struct pci_epf_bar_submap submap[] __counted_by(num_submap);

Not sure if use this simplify alloc/free.

Your suggestion changes the submap from a pointer to a flexible array
member.

A flexible array member must always be last in the struct,
and you can only have one flexible array member per struct.

Additionally, using a flexible array member requires the struct to
always be allocated on the heap. You can't allocate a struct with a
flexible array member on the stack.

So I'm not sure that if your suggestion is something we want.


Kind regards,
Niklas