Hi Jesse, Kenji, et al, This is v3 of the series that implements a series of changes that allows the PCI core to manage slot names, rather than individual hotplug drivers. v2 -> v3: - incorporate Willy's code review comments - fix possible memory leak, pointed out by Rolf Eike Beer - make false name collision detection work for empty slots - add 'dup_slots' module_param to fakephp to help debug all this ;) v1 -> v2: - fix possible false name collisions This series applies against linux-next. I've tested this by loading pci_slot and various hotplug drivers to ensure that the hotplug drivers can successfully override the pci_slot names. I'm including the previous explanation/justification to remind folks of the raison d'etre for this patchset. Thanks. /ac There are several benefits to this approach: 1) The core can prevent duplicate slot names on systems with broken firmware. 2) Since the kobject core keeps a copy of the slot name, there is no need for each driver to manage a separate copy, especially since the core can rename slots from underneath drivers. We save runtime memory by only referencing the kobject name. 2.a) The PCI hotplug core doesn't need its own reference for slot name either. 3) Individual hotplug drivers become just a little bit simpler by pushing as many kzalloc() calls for 'name' down into the PCI core as possible. --- Alex Chiang (14): PCI Hotplug: fakephp: add duplicate slot name debugging PCI: Hotplug core: remove 'name' PCI: shcphp: remove 'name' parameter PCI: SGI Hotplug: stop managing bss_hotplug_slot->name PCI: rpaphp: stop managing hotplug_slot->name PCI: pciehp: remove 'name' parameter PCI: ibmphp: stop managing hotplug_slot->name PCI: fakephp: remove 'name' parameter PCI: cpqphp: stop managing hotplug_slot->name PCI: cpci_hotplug: stop managing hotplug_slot->name PCI: acpiphp: remove 'name' parameter PCI, PCI Hotplug: introduce slot_name helpers PCI: prevent duplicate slot names PCI Hotplug core: add 'name' param pci_hp_register interface drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp.h | 9 +- drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c | 32 +++--- drivers/pci/hotplug/cpci_hotplug.h | 6 + drivers/pci/hotplug/cpci_hotplug_core.c | 74 +++++--------- drivers/pci/hotplug/cpci_hotplug_pci.c | 4 - drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp.h | 13 +- drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_core.c | 42 ++++---- drivers/pci/hotplug/fakephp.c | 25 +++-- drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp.h | 5 - drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c | 19 +--- drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c | 62 ++++++------ drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.h | 9 +- drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c | 41 +++----- drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_ctrl.c | 53 +++++----- drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c | 1 drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp.h | 10 +- drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c | 6 + drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_pci.c | 4 - drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_slot.c | 26 ++--- drivers/pci/hotplug/sgi_hotplug.c | 18 +-- drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.h | 9 +- drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_core.c | 42 +++----- drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c | 48 ++++----- drivers/pci/slot.c | 167 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/pci.h | 9 +- include/linux/pci_hotplug.h | 13 ++ 26 files changed, 401 insertions(+), 346 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html