Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI: Add new method for registering PCI hosts

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>]

On Friday, July 1, 2016 3:14:47 PM CEST Liviu Dudau wrote:
> 
> I'm confused. Why are we butchering the old pci_alloc_host_bridge() function
> to then go back and add re-add it in a different form?

Good point, we could just keep the existing implementation and make it
an exported function without the bus argument.

> The old pci_alloc_host_bridge() was doing mostly what the above
> function does minus the bridge->private line. And the &bridge[1] construct
> could very well be pointing to the next struct pci_host_bridge aligned address,
> which means parts of priv area are ignored.

I don't know what you mean with that. Would you rather write this as?

	bridge->private = bridge + 1;

or leave it out and add a helper function

void *pci_host_bridge_private(struct pci_host_bridge *bridge)
{
	return &bridge[1];
}

or do you mean we should have extra alignment in there so the
private pointer has a minimum alignment higher than the
alignment of struct pci_host_bridge?

I'm absolutely fine with any of those suggestions, whichever
makes the nicest API.

	Arnd