linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 03/25] powerpc/powernv: Map & release OpenCAPI LPC memory

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Message-ID: <f763d9d8487e77006b233bc16e0883f956850b6c.camel@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:   Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:41:30 +1100
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@...ilva.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/25] powerpc/powernv: Map & release OpenCAPI LPC
 memory

On Wed, 2020-04-01 at 01:48 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 
> > +u64 pnv_ocxl_platform_lpc_setup(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 size)
> > +{
> > +       struct pci_controller *hose = pci_bus_to_host(pdev->bus);
> > +       struct pnv_phb *phb = hose->private_data;
> 
> Is calling the local variable 'hose' instead of 'host' on purpose?

Haha that's funny :-)

It's an oooooooold usage that comes iirc from sparc ? or maybe alpha ?
I somewhat accidentally picked it up when adding multiple host-bridge
support on powerpc in the early 2000's and it hasn't quite died yet :)

Cheers,
Ben.