On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:14:11AM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote: > > Msi_chip functions setup_irq/teardown_irq rarely use msi_chip > > argument. > > That's not true. Out of the four drivers that you modify two use the > parameter. And the two that don't probably should be using it too. > > 50% is not "rarely". =) > > > We can look up msi_chip pointer by the device pointer > > or irq number, so clean up msi_chip argument. > > I don't like this particular change. The idea was to keep the API object > oriented so that drivers wouldn't have to know where to get the MSI chip > from. It also makes it more resilient against code reorganizations since > the core code is the only place that needs to know where to get the chip > from. Right. We have the same thing in the irq_chip callbacks. All of them take "struct irq_data", because it's already available in the core code and it gives easy access to all information (chip, chipdata ...) which is necessary for the callback implementations. Thanks, tglx -- 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
