Re: [PATCH] pci: add pci_dev_is_alive API

[Krzysztof Wilczyński]

Hi Lambert,

Thank you for sending the patch over!

To match the style of other patches you'd need to capitalise "PCI" in
the subject, see the following for some examples:

 $ git log --oneline drivers/pci/pci.c 

Also, it might be worth mentioning in the subject that this is a new API
that will be added.

> Device drivers use this API to proactively check if the device
> is alive or not. It is helpful for some PCI devices to detect
> surprise removal and do recovery when Hotplug function is disabled.
> 
> Note: Device in power states larger than D0 is also treated not alive
> by this function.
[...]

Question to you: do you have any particular users of this new API in
mind?  Or is this solving some problem you've seen and/or reported via
the kernel Bugzilla?

> +/**
> + * pci_dev_is_alive - check the pci device is alive or not
> + * @pdev: the PCI device

That would be "PCI" in the function brief above.  Also, try to be
consistent and capitalise everything plus add missing periods, see the
following for an example on how to write kernel-doc:

  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/kernel-doc.html#function-documentation

> + * Device drivers use this API to proactively check if the device
> + * is alive or not. It is helpful for some PCI devices to detect
> + * surprise removal and do recovery when Hotplug function is disabled.

As per my question above - what users of this new API do you have in
mind?  Are they any other patches pending adding users of this API?

> + * Note: Device in power state larger than D0 is also treated not alive
> + * by this function.
> + *
> + * Returns true if the device is alive.
> + */
> +bool pci_dev_is_alive(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> +	u16 vendor;
> +
> +	pci_read_config_word(pdev, PCI_VENDOR_ID, &vendor);
> +
> +	return vendor == pdev->vendor;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_dev_is_alive);

Why not use the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()?

	Krzysztof