Re: [PATCH] add hook for PCI resource deallocation

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:02:52PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 05:54:14AM -0700, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> > 
> >    Hi,
> > 
> >    This patch adds a hook 'pcibios_disable_device()' into
> >    pci_disable_device() to call architecture specific PCI resource
> >    deallocation code. It's a opposite part of pcibios_enable_device().
> >    We need this hook to deallocate architecture specific PCI resource
> >    such as IRQ resource, etc.. This patch is just for adding the hook,
> >    so pcibios_disable_device() is defined as a null function on all
> >    architecture so far.
> > 
> >    I tested this patch on i386, x86_64 and ia64. But it has not been
> >    tested on other architectures because I don't have these machines.
> > 
> >    Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > 
> 
> Hi Kenji
> 
> I think instead of modifying all the arch specific code, you could use the __attribute__(weak)
> and define a default dummy funcion in 	drivers/pci/pci.c
> 
> void __attribute__((weak)) pcibios_disable_device(struct pci_dev *dev)	{ }
> 
> 
> each arch that really needs this can define the override function.
> That way you dont need to put the dummy function in several places,
> containing your changes to a very few set of files.

Ohhh, nice.  I like that option better.  Kenji, care to respin your
patches based on this change?

thanks,

greg k-h