[RFC/RFT PATCH 05/18] ARM: PCI: dove: Convert PCI scan API to pci_scan_root_bus_bridge()

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Apr 28 08:38:48 EDT 2017


On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi
<lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com> wrote:
> The introduction of pci_scan_root_bus_bridge() provides a PCI core
> API to scan a PCI root bus backed by an already initialized
> struct pci_host_bridge object, which simplifies the bus scan
> interface and makes the PCI scan root bus interface easier to
> generalize as members are added to the struct pci_host_bridge().
>
> Convert ARM dove platform code to pci_scan_root_bus_bridge() to improve
> the PCI root bus scanning interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>

Is this patch required for one of the later steps in the series?

As non-DT dove uses the traditional pci_common_init() helper rather
than registering its own driver, I wonder if there is anything to gain here.

        Arnd



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