linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/21] MSI: Use a list instead of the custom link structure

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:24:00 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	michael@...erman.id.au
Cc:	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	daniel.e.wolstenholme@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/21] MSI: Use a list instead of the custom link structure

Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au> writes:

>
> I thought about doing it in the MSI enable methods, but I think it
> really belongs in the (nonexistant) routine that allocs and sets up a
> pci_dev.

I agree that would be a good place for it as well.

> I think it's pretty dicy to be passing around a pci_dev with an
> uninitialised msi_list. Even if currently no code outside the MSI enable
> methods looks at it, I think we're asking for bugs in the future.

Reasonable.

> So I'll do a patch which adds alloc_pci_dev(), update the callers, and
> then put the msi_list initialisation in there.

Sounds good.  That will allow us to initialize all of the fields in struct
pci_dev to a default value in one place.

Eric
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