[PATCH v2 01/22] PCI/MSI: Clean up struct msi_chip argument

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 00:15:38 PDT 2014


On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:14:11AM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote:
> Msi_chip functions setup_irq/teardown_irq rarely use msi_chip
> argument.

That's not true. Out of the four drivers that you modify two use the
parameter. And the two that don't probably should be using it too.

50% is not "rarely". =)

>           We can look up msi_chip pointer by the device pointer
> or irq number, so clean up msi_chip argument.

I don't like this particular change. The idea was to keep the API object
oriented so that drivers wouldn't have to know where to get the MSI chip
from. It also makes it more resilient against code reorganizations since
the core code is the only place that needs to know where to get the chip
from.

Thierry
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