RE: [patch] PCI Cleanup

From: Kai Germaschewski (kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 10:58:17 EST


On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Grover, Andrew wrote:

> ACPI needs access to PCI config space, and it doesn't have a struct pci_dev
> to pass to access functions. It doesn't look like your patch exposes an
> interface that 1) doesn't require a pci_dev and 2) abstracts the PCI config
> access method, does it?

I think drivers/hotplug/pci_hotplug_util.c implements something like you
need, pci_read_config_byte_nodev().

Of course that's currently only available for PCI hotplug, and for all I
can see the concept is somewhat messed up, but maybe that's an opportunity
to clean things up?

Currently, pci_read_config_byte_nodev() will construct a fake struct
pci_dev, and then use the normal pci_read_config_byte(). I think it
makes more sense to actually do things the other way around.

For reading/writing config space, we need to know (dev, fn), and need the
access method (struct pci_ops), which is a property of the bridge plus
possibly some private data (the arch's sysdata). So the member

        struct pci_ops *ops;

of struct pci_dev is actually not necessary, it will always be
pdev->ops == pdev->bus->ops AFAICS.

So we could instead have

        pci_bus_read_config_byte(struct pci_bus *bus, u8 dev, u8 fn, ...)

and for common use

        static inline pci_read_config_byte(struct pci_dev, *pdev, ...)
        {
                return pci_bus_read_config_byte(pdev->bus,
                                                PCI_SLOT(pdev->devfn),
                                                PCI_FUNC(pdev->devfn));
        }

The PCI hotplug controllers / ACPI could then use the pci_bus_* variants,
when they don't have a struct pci_dev available. They would need at least
the root bridge's struct pci_bus, though.

--Kai

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