Re: [RFC PATCH V5 1/5] PCI: Embed pci_ecam_ops in pci_config_window structure

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On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 04:38:45PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 01:23:45PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 03:05:37PM +0200, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> > > pci_config_window keeps pointer to pci_ecam_ops and every time
> > > we want to deallocate pci_config_window (pci_ecam_free()) we need to make
> > > sure to free pci_ecam_ops in case it was dynamically allocated prior to
> > > pci_ecam_create() call.
> > 
> > I think this is a theoretical problem, right?  All the current callers
> > pass a pointer to a static pci_ecam_ops struct that does not need to
> > be deallocated.
> > 
> > I see that the next patch uses a pci_ecam_ops struct on the stack,
> 
> I asked Tomasz why we need to have pci_ecam_ops on the stack in the
> first place since I do not think it is needed, or nicer (actually I
> think it is not nice at all, what's the problem in making it static ?).

If it's useful to copy the struct instead of saving the pointer, that's
fine.  I just want the changelog to match the diff.

Bjorn
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