Re: [PATCH 2/3] pci: Add a generic, weakly-linked pcibios_align_resource

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Palmer,

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 3:50 AM, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Multiple architectures define this as trivial function, and I'm adding
> another one as part of the RISC-V port.  This adds a __weak version of
> pcibios_align_resource and deletes the now obselete ones in a handful of
> ports.
>
> The only functional change should be that a handful of ports used to
> export pcibios_fixup_bus.  Only some architectures export this, so I
> just dropped it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This function is only ever used as a pointer passed to
pci_bus_alloc_resource()?

What about having

    #ifndef pcibios_fixup_bus
    #define pcibios_fixup_bus NULL
    #endif

in asm-generic/pci.h, letting the architecture with a non-trivial
implementation predefine the preprocessor symbol, and teaching
pci_bus_alloc_resource() to handle NULL?

[...]

Oh, the latter eventually calls into allocate_resource(), which already falls
back to simple_align_resource() if the alignment function is NULL, which
does the same thing.
So NULL should already work.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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