Re: [PATCH V3 2/7] PCI: Export pci_find_host_bridge()

[Manikanta Maddireddy <mmaddireddy@nvidia.com>]

On 06-Dec-17 1:34 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 02:50:02PM +0530, Manikanta Maddireddy wrote:
>> PCI subsystem pass pci_bus pointer to pci_ops callback functions, Tegra
> 
> s/PCI subsystem pass/The PCI subsystem passes a/
> s/, Tegra/.  The Tegra/
> 
>> host driver use pci_find_host_bridge() to get pci_host_bridge from pci_bus.
> 
> s/use/uses/
> 
>> Export pci_find_host_bridge() to allow Tegra PCIe driver to be compiled as
>> loadable kernel module.
> 
> s/allow Tegra/allow the Tegra/
> s/loadable/a loadable/
> 
> But why do you need pci_find_host_bridge() at all?  Most drivers use
> the pci_bus.sysdata pointer for this purpose, e.g., see db271747a04d
> ("PCI: mediatek: Use bus->sysdata to get host private data")
> 

I will send a patch to use bus->sysdata instead of pci_find_host_bridge().

>> Signed-off-by: Manikanta Maddireddy <mmaddireddy@nvidia.com>
>> ---
>> V2:
>> * commit message update
>> V3:
>> * EXPORT_SYMBOL is changed to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>>
>>  drivers/pci/host-bridge.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c b/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c
>> index add66236215c..b8c0fcde9bd7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c
>> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ struct pci_host_bridge *pci_find_host_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus)
>>  
>>  	return to_pci_host_bridge(root_bus->bridge);
>>  }
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_find_host_bridge);
>>  
>>  struct device *pci_get_host_bridge_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>  {
>> -- 
>> 2.1.4
>>