Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/4] pci: Add pci_enable_device_{io,mem} intefaces

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-18T09:45:33Z

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:37 +0300, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:02:37AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_enable_device_io);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_enable_device_mem);
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_enable_device);
>
> Wouldn't it be better to export only the pci_enable_device_flags()
> and make these three just "static inline" wrappers in pci.h?

Been thinking about it yeah. I don't want drivers to start using
the _flags version directly tho, which is why I preferred going that
way but if people prefer the inline version, I'll do that.

> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(pcim_enable_device);
>
> Looks like many SATA drivers would benefit from pcim_* equivalents
> of pci_enable_device_{io,mem}, as they could happily work with just
> a single MMIO BAR... Alan?

I have no experience with the pcim stuff, I would appreciate if somebody
took care of that part.

Cheers,
Ben.