Re: [PATCH V6 02/13] pci, acpi: Provide generic way to assign bus domain number.

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 28 April 2016 10:12:12 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 06:31:29PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:44:53AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:17:58PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:26:49PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 07:06:37PM +0200, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Today we call pci_bus_assign_domain_nr() from the PCI core (from
> > > pci_create_root_bus()).  This is only implemented for
> > > PCI_DOMAINS_GENERIC, but even so, it fiddles around to figure out
> > > whether to get the domain from DT or to assign a new one.
> > > 
> > > That seems backwards to me.  The host bridge drivers already know
> > > where the domain should come from (ACPI _SEG, DT, etc.) and in the
> > > long term, I think they should be responsible for looking up or
> > > assigning a domain number *before* they call pci_create_root_bus().
> > 
> > Yes, the question still is how pci_create_root_bus() can get that
> > value (I am pretty certain this was heavily debated in the past, which
> > does not mean we can't give it another try).
> 
> Right, we don't have a good mechanism for passing more info into
> pci_create_root_bus().  Maybe the caller could fill in a struct so we
> have a chance to extend it without having to change all the existing
> callers.
> 
> I wonder if there's a design pattern we can copy, e.g., would
> something like the scsi_host_alloc(), scsi_add_host(),
> scsi_scan_host() model work here?

Yes, I think that is a good idea in general. Especially
now that we have separate the ARM code from pci_common_init_dev
and pci_sys_data, that can help with cleanups in the other drivers
as well.

I see two common variations in other subsystems: some use a
special alloc() function that you pass the size of the private
data into, while others just expect you to embed a structure
inside of the driver specific one allocate that separately to
have the generic registration function fill out the common fields.

I have a slight preference for the second, but they are really
the same thing basically.

	Arnd