Re: [RFC/PATCH] of: Match PCI devices to OF nodes generically

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:03:17 +1000

> On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 00:48 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:27:10 +1000
>> 
>> > +struct device_node * __weak pcibios_get_phb_of_node(struct pci_bus *bus)
>> > +{
>> > +	/* This should only be called for PHBs */
>> > +	if (WARN_ON(bus->self || bus->parent))
>> > +		return NULL;
>> 
>> This WARN_ON() will always trigger on sparc, because we use the OF
>> device tree object at the "parent" of the PCI bus devices we create
>> for the PCI controller domains.
>> 
>> I'm really surprised you don't link the PCI bus roots into the rest of
>> the global device hierarchy on powerpc.
> 
> But in the above test bus->parent is the "struct pci_bus *" parent, not
> the "struct device *" nor "struct device_node *" parent... That
> shouldn't be linked to anything on a PHB.

Aha, ok, then it shouldn't trigger on sparc, thanks for explaining.