Re: [PATCH 0/7] PCI: Remove hybrid-devres region requests

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 02:45:58PM +0200, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> the great day has finally arrived, I managed to get rid of one of the
> big three remaining problems in the PCI devres API (the other two being
> MSI having hybrid-devres, too, and the good old pcim_iomap_tablle)!
> 
> It turned out that there aren't even that many users of the hybrid API,
> where pcim_enable_device() switches certain functions in pci.c into
> managed devres mode, which we want to remove.
> 
> The affected drivers can be found with:
> 
> grep -rlZ "pcim_enable_device" | xargs -0 grep -l "pci_request"
> 
> These were:
> 
> 	ASoC [1]
> 	alsa [2] 

FWIW, tailing space here.

> 	cardreader [3]
> 	cirrus [4]
> 	i2c [5]
> 	mmc [6]
> 	mtd [7]
> 	mxser [8]
> 	net [9]
> 	spi [10]
> 	vdpa [11]
> 	vmwgfx [12]
> 
> All of those have been merged and are queued up for the merge window.
> The only possible exception is vdpa, but it seems to be ramped up right
> now; vdpa, however, doesn't even use the hybrid behavior, so that patch
> is just for generic cleanup anyways.
> 
> With the users of the hybrid feature gone, the feature itself can
> finally be burned.
> 
> So I'm sending out this series now to probe whether it's judged to be
> good enough for the upcoming merge window. If we could take it, we would
> make it impossible that anyone adds new users of the hybrid thing.
> 
> If it's too late for the merge window, then that's what it is, of
> course.
> 
> In any case I'm glad we can get rid of most of that legacy stuff now.

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Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko