Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] PCI: Prepare removing devres from pci_intx()

[Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/9/24 17:35, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> pci_intx() is a hybrid function which sometimes performs devres
> operations, depending on whether pcim_enable_device() has been used to
> enable the pci_dev. This sometimes-managed nature of the function is
> problematic. Notably, it causes the function to allocate under some
> circumstances which makes it unusable from interrupt context.
> 
> To, ultimately, remove the hybrid nature from pci_intx(), it is first
> necessary to provide an always-managed and a never-managed version
> of that function. Then, all callers of pci_intx() can be ported to the
> version they need, depending whether they use pci_enable_device() or
> pcim_enable_device().
> 
> An always-managed function exists, namely pcim_intx(), for which
> __pcim_intx(), a never-managed version of pci_intx() had been

s/had/has ? Not sure about this, English is not my first language :)

> implemented.
> 
> Make __pcim_intx() a public function under the name
> pci_intx_unmanaged(). Make pcim_intx() a public function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regardless of the above nit, looks OK to me.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research