From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/22] PCI/MSI: Clean up struct msi_chip argument Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:20:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <1411614872-4009-1-git-send-email-wangyijing@huawei.com> <1411614872-4009-2-git-send-email-wangyijing@huawei.com> <20140925071536.GG12423@ulmo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140925071536.GG12423@ulmo> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Thierry Reding Cc: linux-mips-6z/3iImG2C8G8FEW9MqTrA@public.gmane.org, linux-ia64-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-pci-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, sparclinux-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arch-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-s390-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Russell King , Michael Ellerman , x86-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, Sebastian Ott , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , xen-devel-GuqFBffKawtpuQazS67q72D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, arnab.basu-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org, Arnd Bergmann , Chris Metcalf , Bjorn Helgaas , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, Thomas Petazzoni , Xinwei Hu , Tony Luck , Sergei Shtylyov , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Ralf Baechle , iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, David Vrabel , Wuyun List-Id: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:14:11AM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote: > > Msi_chip functions setup_irq/teardown_irq rarely use msi_chip > > argument. > > That's not true. Out of the four drivers that you modify two use the > parameter. And the two that don't probably should be using it too. > > 50% is not "rarely". =) > > > We can look up msi_chip pointer by the device pointer > > or irq number, so clean up msi_chip argument. > > I don't like this particular change. The idea was to keep the API object > oriented so that drivers wouldn't have to know where to get the MSI chip > from. It also makes it more resilient against code reorganizations since > the core code is the only place that needs to know where to get the chip > from. Right. We have the same thing in the irq_chip callbacks. All of them take "struct irq_data", because it's already available in the core code and it gives easy access to all information (chip, chipdata ...) which is necessary for the callback implementations. Thanks, tglx