linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] s390/pci: remove unused bus_next field from struct zpci

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Date:   Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:23:39 +0200
From:   Pierre Morel <pmorel@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>, iommu@...ts.linux.dev
Cc:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com,
        hca@...ux.ibm.com, gor@...ux.ibm.com,
        gerald.schaefer@...ux.ibm.com, agordeev@...ux.ibm.com,
        svens@...ux.ibm.com, joro@...tes.org, will@...nel.org,
        robin.murphy@....com, jgg@...dia.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] s390/pci: remove unused bus_next field from struct
 zpci_dev



On 9/26/22 11:17, Pierre Morel wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/22/22 11:52, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
>> This field was added in commit 44510d6fa0c0 ("s390/pci: Handling
>> multifunctions") but is an unused remnant of an earlier version where
>> the devices on the virtual bus were connected in a linked list instead
>> of a fixed 256 entry array of pointers.
>>
>> It is also not used for the list of busses as that is threaded through
>> struct zpci_bus not through struct zpci_dev.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> 

Also couldn't it be detached of the series and posted on its own?

>> ---
>>   arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h | 1 -
>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h
>> index 7b4cdadbc023..108e732d7b14 100644
>> --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h
>> +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h
>> @@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ struct zpci_bus {
>>   struct zpci_dev {
>>       struct zpci_bus *zbus;
>>       struct list_head entry;        /* list of all zpci_devices, 
>> needed for hotplug, etc. */
>> -    struct list_head bus_next;
>>       struct kref kref;
>>       struct hotplug_slot hotplug_slot;
> 

-- 
Pierre Morel
IBM Lab Boeblingen