[PATCH v2 06/10] PCI: Introduce devm_of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources()

Vladimir Zapolskiy vladimir_zapolskiy at mentor.com
Thu May 3 00:15:20 PDT 2018


On 04/30/2018 08:48 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
> 
> of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() allocates the resource structures it
> fills dynamically, but none of its callers care to release them so far.
> Rather than requiring everyone to do this explicitly, introduce a
> managed version of that service. This differs API-wise only in taking a
> reference to the associated device, rather than to the device tree node.
> 
> As of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() is an exported interface, we
> cannot simply drop it at this point. After converting all in-tree users
> to the new API, we will phase out the unmanaged one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy at mentor.com>
Tested-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy at mentor.com>

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With best wishes,
Vladimir



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