[PATCH v7 4/6] pci: Introduce a domain number for pci_host_bridge.

Liviu Dudau Liviu.Dudau at arm.com
Mon Apr 7 03:07:15 PDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:14:18AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 09:46 +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > 
> > *My* strategy is to get rid of pci_domain_nr(). I don't see why we need
> > to have arch specific way of providing the number, specially after looking
> > at the existing implementations that return a value from a variable that
> > is never touched or incremented. My guess is that pci_domain_nr() was
> > created to work around the fact that there was no domain_nr maintainance in
> > the generic code.
> 
> Well, there was no generic host bridge structure. There is one now, it should
> go there.

Exactly! Hence my patch. After it gets accepted I will go through architectures
and remove their version of pci_domain_nr().

Best regards,
Liviu

> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>  
> 
> 

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