Re: [PATCH 12/34] AMD IOMMU: add detect code for AMD IOMMU hardware

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 21:57:19 EST


On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:27:48 +0200 Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch adds the detection of AMD IOMMU hardware provided on information
> from ACPI provided by the BIOS.
>
> ...
>
> +static int __init init_iommu_all(struct acpi_table_header *table)
> +{
> + u8 *p = (u8 *)table, *end = (u8 *)table;
> + struct ivhd_header *h;
> + struct amd_iommu *iommu;
> + int ret;
> +
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&amd_iommu_list);

Initialisation of a global list_head should be unnecessary. Just define
the list_head with LIST_HEAD() and do it at compile-time.


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