Re: [PATCH] drivers: block: save return value of pci_find_capability() in u8

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On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:23:03PM +0530, Puranjay Mohan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 8:23 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Can we take a step back?  I think in general drivers should not bother
> > with pci_find_capability.  Both mtip32xx and skd want to find out if
> > the devices are PCIe devices, skd then just prints the link speed for
> > which we have much better helpers, mtip32xx than messes with DEVCTL
> > which seems actively dangerous to me.
> 
> The skd driver uses pci_find_capability(skdev->pdev, PCI_CAP_ID_EXP);
> to check if the device is PCIe, it can use pci_is_pcie() to do that.
> After that it uses pci_read_config_word(skdev->pdev, pcie_reg,
> &pcie_lstat); to read the Link Status Register, I think
> it should use pcie_capability_read_word(skdev->pdev, PCI_EXP_LNKSTA,
> &pcie_lstat);
> 
> Please let me know if the above changes are correct so I may send a patch.

You just want to print the current link speed, right? Does
skdev->pdev->bus->cur_bus_speed provide what you need?



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