Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] s390/pci: remove unused bus_next field from struct zpci_dev

From: Niklas Schnelle
Date: Mon Sep 26 2022 - 11:09:29 EST


On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 11:23 +0200, Pierre Morel wrote:
>
> On 9/26/22 11:17, Pierre Morel wrote:
> >
> > On 9/22/22 11:52, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > > This field was added in commit 44510d6fa0c0 ("s390/pci: Handling
> > > multifunctions") but is an unused remnant of an earlier version where
> > > the devices on the virtual bus were connected in a linked list instead
> > > of a fixed 256 entry array of pointers.
> > >
> > > It is also not used for the list of busses as that is threaded through
> > > struct zpci_bus not through struct zpci_dev.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
>
> Also couldn't it be detached of the series and posted on its own?

As this is entirely s390 specific this can go via the s390 tree without
re-posting. Since we're still figuring the rest of the series out it
might even make it upstream before that and then we can more easily
refer to it as a pre-requisite.

>
> > > ---
> > > arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h | 1 -
> > > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h
> > > index 7b4cdadbc023..108e732d7b14 100644
> > > --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h
> > > +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/pci.h
> > > @@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ struct zpci_bus {
> > > struct zpci_dev {
> > > struct zpci_bus *zbus;
> > > struct list_head entry; /* list of all zpci_devices,
> > > needed for hotplug, etc. */
> > > - struct list_head bus_next;
> > > struct kref kref;
> > > struct hotplug_slot hotplug_slot;