Re: [PATCH v9 1/3] dmaengine: ptdma: Initial driver for the AMD PTDMA

Greg KH
2021-06-16T12:23:39Z

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 05:30:49PM +0530, Sanjay R Mehta wrote:
> The pt_device is allocated and initialized in the PCI probe function and
> then we just get the "dev" from the "pci_dev" object and save it in
> "pt->dev" as shown in below snippet.
>
>
> static int pt_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct
> pci_device_id *id)
> {
> struct pt_device *pt;
> struct pt_msix *pt_msix;
> struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;

So "dev" is a parent here, or something else?

If it is the parent, please call it such otherwise it is confusing.

If you are creating child devices, what bus do they belong to?

Can you fix up this series and resend it so that we can review it again?

thanks,

greg k-h