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Message-Id: <200809231114.13905.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:14:13 -0700
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
Cc: linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: connect struct pci_dev to struct pci_slot
On Tuesday, September 2, 2008 8:40 am Alex Chiang wrote:
> The introduction of struct pci_slot (f46753c5e354b857b20ab8e0fe7b25)
> added a struct pci_slot pointer to struct pci_dev, but we forgot to
> associate the two.
>
> Connect the two structs together; the interesting portions of the object
> lifetimes are:
>
> - when a new pci_slot is created, connect it to the appropriate
> pci_dev's. A single pci_slot may be associated with multiple
> pci_dev's, e.g. any multi-function PCI device.
>
> - when a pci_slot is released, look for all the pci_dev's it was
> associated with, and set their pci_slot pointers to NULL
>
> - when a pci_dev is created, look for slots to associate with.
>
> Note -- when a pci_dev is released, we don't need to do any bookkeeping,
> since pci_slot's do not have pointers to pci_dev's.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
Applied to linux-next. Thanks.
Jesse
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