Hi Uwe,

On Tue Apr 28, 2026 at 7:18 PM CEST, Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) wrote:
> ... and PCI device helpers.
>
> The various struct pci_device_id arrays were initialized mostly by one
> the PCI_DEVICE macros and then list expressions. The latter isn't easily
> readable if you're not into PCI. Using named initializers is more
> explicit and thus easier to parse.
>
> Also use PCI_DEVICE* helper macros to assign .vendor, .device,
> .subvendor and .subdevice where appropriate and skip explicit
> assignments of 0 (which the compiler takes care of).
>
> The secret plan is to make struct pci_device_id::driver_data an
> anonymous union (similar to
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1776579304.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com/)
> and that requires named initializers. But it's also a nice cleanup on
> its own.
>
> This change doesn't introduce changes to the compiled pci_device_id
> arrays. Tested on x86 and arm64.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
> ---
> Hello,
>
> the mentioned follow-up quest allows to do
>
> 			PCI_DEVICE(0x1571, 0xa203),
> 	+		.driver_data = (kernel_ulong_t)&card_info_10mbit,
> 	-		.driver_data_ptr = &card_info_10mbit,
>
> which gets rid of a bunch of casts and so brings a little bit more type
> safety. This patch is a preparation for that.
>
> I handled all of drivers/net/ in a single patch, please tell me if I
> should split by subsystem.
>
> Best regards
> Uwe
> ---

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> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_pci.c b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_pci.c
> index eb31ed1f9644..cb9335c1d3ea 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_pci.c
> @@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(m_can_pci_pm_ops,
>  			 m_can_pci_suspend, m_can_pci_resume);
>  
>  static const struct pci_device_id m_can_pci_id_table[] = {
> -	{ PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, 0x4bc1), M_CAN_CLOCK_FREQ_EHL, },
> -	{ PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, 0x4bc2), M_CAN_CLOCK_FREQ_EHL, },
> -	{  }	/* Terminating Entry */
> +	{ PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, 0x4bc1), .driver_data = M_CAN_CLOCK_FREQ_EHL, },
> +	{ PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, 0x4bc2), .driver_data = M_CAN_CLOCK_FREQ_EHL, },
> +	{ }	/* terminating entry */

M_CAN_CLOCK_FREQ_EHL is basically hardcoded for all PCI devices since
2020. I don't think we need this driver data at all and can just drop it
and use M_CAN_CLOCK_FREQ_EHL directly in the code for the frequency.
Once a real new PCI device gets added we can see if and what driver_data
is needed.

Best
Markus