Re: [PATCH] PCI: Move ATS declarations to linux/pci.h

[Bjorn Helgaas]

[+cc Kelsey]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 04:11:00PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 09:18:40AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 05:07:56PM +0200, Krzysztof Wilczynski wrote:
> > > Move ATS function prototypes from include/linux/pci-ats.h to
> > > include/linux/pci.h so users only need to include <linux/pci.h>:
> > 
> > Why is that so important?  Very few PCI(e) device drivers use ATS,
> > so keeping it out of everyones include hell doesn't seem all bad.
> 
> This was my idea, and it wasn't a good one, sorry.
> 
> The ATS, PRI, and PASID interfaces are all sort of related and are
> used only by the IOMMU drivers, so it probably makes sense to put them
> all together.  Right now the ATS stuff is in linux/pci.h and PRI/PASID
> stuff is in linux/pci-ats.h.  Maybe the right thing would be to move
> the ATS stuff to pci-ats.h.
> 
> I previously moved it from pci-ats.h to pci.h with ff9bee895c4d ("PCI:
> Move ATS declarations to linux/pci.h so they're all together") with
> the excuse of putting the external ATS interfaces next to
> pci_ats_init().  But that really looks like it was a mistake because
> pci_ats_init() is a PCI-internal thing and its declaration should
> probably be in drivers/pci/pci.h instead.

Never mind the pci_ats_init() part; Kelsey has already moved that:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git/commit/?id=b92b512a435d