On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:53:29PM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote: > @@ -571,14 +578,16 @@ int pci_hp_register(struct hotplug_slot > return -EINVAL; > } > > - mutex_lock(&pci_hp_mutex); > + slot->ops->owner = owner; > + slot->ops->mod_name = mod_name; > > + mutex_lock(&pci_hp_mutex); Why not have the hotplug drivers fill in the ops->owner and ops->mod_name? That would be the more common pattern within the kernel -- eg for file_operations. There's only 9 places to change. > Index: 20090529/drivers/pci/slot.c > =================================================================== > --- 20090529.orig/drivers/pci/slot.c > +++ 20090529/drivers/pci/slot.c > @@ -307,6 +307,50 @@ void pci_destroy_slot(struct pci_slot *s > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_destroy_slot); > > +#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI) || defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_MODULE) > +#include <linux/pci_hotplug.h> > +/** > + * pci_hp_create_link - create symbolic link to the hotplug driver module. > + * @slot: struct pci_slot > + * > + * Helper function for pci_hotplug_core.c to create symbolic link to > + * the hotplug driver module. > + */ > +void pci_hp_create_module_link(struct pci_slot *pci_slot) > +{ I don't understand why you want to put these functions in the slot driver rather than in the PCI hotplug core. Then they'd be private to the hotplug core. > + struct hotplug_slot *slot = pci_slot->hotplug; > + struct kobject *kobj = NULL; > + int no_warn; > + > + if (!slot || !slot->ops) > + return; > + if (!slot->ops->owner) > + kobj = kset_find_obj(module_kset, slot->ops->mod_name); > +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES > + else > + kobj = kobject_get(&slot->ops->owner->mkobj.kobj); > +#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */ Ew. Surely there's a better way ... even if it's putting the kobject in the slot ops. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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