Re: [PATCH 3/6] PCI: Introduce devm_of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources

[Sinan Kaya]

On 4/30/2018 2:40 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 09:28:47AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2018-04-28 00:24, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 05:13:39PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> 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 could phase out the unmanaged one over some grace period.
>>>
>>> It looks like it might be possible to split this into three or four
>>> patches:
>>>
>>>   1) Factor __of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() out of
>>>      of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources()
>>>
>>>   2) Add struct device * argument
>>>
>>>   3) Convert pr_info() to dev_info()
>>>
>>>   4) Add devm_of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources()
>>
>> Will do. I'm even considering
>>
>> 5) mark of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() __deprecated, due to the leak
>>    and no remaining in-tree user - what do you think?
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> It'd be nice if we had some guideline about deprecation -- whether we
> actually need to mark things __deprecated, and then how long to wait
> before actually removing them, but I don't see anything in
> Documentation/.

I'm under the impression that we don't quite care about out-of-tree drivers.
I have seen many times out-of-tree drivers to be broken due to API changes,
renames or even parameter meaning change. 

If the plan is to remove the API, just remove the API today.

> 
> Looks like it was added by cbe4097f8ae6 ("of/pci: Add support for
> parsing PCI host bridge resources from DT") in v3.18, so it's been
> around for a while and I guess it would be nice to have a grace period
> before removing it.
> 


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