Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation: devres: fix error about PCI devres
From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Fri Aug 09 2024 - 14:38:05 EST
On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 11:52:48AM +0200, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> The documentation states that pcim_enable_device() will make "all PCI
> ops" managed. This is totally false, only a small subset of PCI
> functions become managed that way. Implicating otherwise has caused at
> least one bug so far, namely in commit 8558de401b5f ("drm/vboxvideo: use
> managed pci functions").
>
> Change the function summary so the functions dangerous behavior becomes
> obvious.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
s/Implicating/Suggesting/
s/functions dangerous/function's dangerous/
> ---
> +CC PCI and Bjorn.
>
> Bjorn, btw. neither PCI nor you are printed by getmaintainers for the
> touched document. Possibly one might want to think about fixing that
> somehow.
> But I don't think it's a huge deal.
> ---
> Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst
> index ac9ee7441887..5f2ee8d717b1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst
> @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ PCI
> devm_pci_remap_cfgspace() : ioremap PCI configuration space
> devm_pci_remap_cfg_resource() : ioremap PCI configuration space resource
>
> - pcim_enable_device() : after success, all PCI ops become managed
> + pcim_enable_device() : after success, some PCI ops become managed
> pcim_iomap() : do iomap() on a single BAR
> pcim_iomap_regions() : do request_region() and iomap() on multiple BARs
> pcim_iomap_regions_request_all() : do request_region() on all and iomap() on multiple BARs
> --
> 2.45.2
>