I can not thank you enough for the amount of time you must have spent writing this response. I will look into those things in the following days for sure! ( I have already started looking into the "__ref" stuff) Thanks again for this, Sergio M. Iglesias. On 21/08/25 03:43, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 12:28:32AM +0200, Sergio Miguéns Iglesias wrote: > > The code style for most files was fixed. This means that blank lines > > were added when needed (normally after variable declarations), spaces > > before tabs were removed, some code alignment issues were solved, block > > comment style was fixed, every instance of "unsigned var" was replaced > > with "unsigned int var"... Etc. > > > > This commit does not change the logic of the code, it just fixes > > aesthetic problems. > > I generally *like* this, and it does fix some annoying things, but I > think it's a little too much all at once. If we're working in a file > and doing actual bug fixes or new functionality, and we want to fix > some typos or something at the end, that might be OK, but I think the > churn in the git history outweighs the benefit of this huge patch. > > So I would encourage you to use some of the PCI expertise you've > gained by looking at all this code to work on something with a little > more impact. Here are a couple ideas: > > - There are only two uses of __ref and __refdata in drivers/pci/. > The fact that they're so rare makes me suspect that we don't need > them. But I haven't investigated these to see. Somebody could > check that out and remove them if we don't need them. Be aware > that I will want a clear argument for why they're not needed :) > > - Coverity complains about several issues in drivers/pci/ [1]. Most > of the time these are false positives, but not always. Sometimes > there's an actual bug, and sometimes there's a way to restructure > the code to avoid the warning (which usually means doing things > the same way they are done elsewhere). > > - "make C=2 drivers/pci/" (sparse checker, [2]) complains about a > few things. Leave the pci_power_t ones alone for now, but there > are a couple other type issues that could be cleaned up. > > [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19eyNDou83JACzf44j0NRzEWysva6g44G2_Z9IEXGVNk/edit?usp=sharing > [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst?id=v5.13 > > > Signed-off-by: Sergio Miguéns Iglesias <sergio@xxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/pci/access.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- > > drivers/pci/bus.c | 3 ++- > > drivers/pci/msi.c | 12 +++++++----- > > drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c | 3 ++- > > drivers/pci/pci-driver.c | 19 +++++++++++++------ > > drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- > > drivers/pci/pci.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- > > drivers/pci/proc.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ > > drivers/pci/quirks.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > > drivers/pci/remove.c | 1 + > > drivers/pci/rom.c | 2 +- > > drivers/pci/setup-bus.c | 5 ++++- > > drivers/pci/setup-irq.c | 12 +++++++----- > > drivers/pci/setup-res.c | 2 +- > > drivers/pci/slot.c | 5 ++++- > > drivers/pci/syscall.c | 5 +++-- > > drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c | 20 ++++++++++++-------- > > 17 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)