[PATCH v4 1/6] PCI: aardvark: Introduce an advk_pcie_valid_device() helper

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 11:21:28AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 12:28:43 +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:39:41AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > > In other to mimic other PCIe host controller drivers, introduce an
> > > advk_pcie_valid_device() helper, used in the configuration read/write
> > > functions.
> > > 
> > > This patch by itself is not a fix, but it is required for a follow-up
> > > patch that is a fix, hence the Fixes tag and the Cc to stable.  
> > 
> > Should not we just reshuffle patch 1 and 2 instead of sending this
> > patch to stable ? I appreciate the merge window is open and timing is
> > quite tight, it is just to avoid sending churn to stable kernels
> > for not much.
> 
> I can certainly do that, but it's actually Bjorn who asked in the first
> place to introduce the advk_pcie_valid_device() helper.

I did suggest [1] adding advk_pcie_valid_device() to match other
drivers, but I don't care about the order of these patches.  If it
makes more sense to put the fix first for easier backporting to
stable, that's fine with me.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180110011136.GB157182@bhelgaas-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com