On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 08:46:23AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 06:42:34PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > I looked at all the bus_type.probe() methods, it looks like pci_dev is > > not the only offender here. At least the following also have a driver > > pointer in the device struct: > > > > parisc_device.driver > > acpi_device.driver > > dio_dev.driver > > hid_device.driver > > pci_dev.driver > > pnp_dev.driver > > rio_dev.driver > > zorro_dev.driver > > Right, when I converted zorro_dev it was pointed out that the code was > copied from pci and the latter has the same construct. :-) > See > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730191035.1455248-5-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > for the patch, I don't find where pci was pointed out, maybe it was on > irc only. Oh, thanks! I looked to see if you'd done something similar elsewhere, but I missed this one. > > Looking through the places that care about pci_dev.driver (the ones > > updated by patch 5/6), many of them are ... a little dubious to begin > > with. A few need the "struct pci_error_handlers *err_handler" > > pointer, so that's probably legitimate. But many just need a name, > > and should probably be using dev_driver_string() instead. > > Yeah, I considered adding a function to get the driver name from a > pci_dev and a function to get the error handlers. Maybe it's an idea to > introduce these two and then use to_pci_driver(pdev->dev.driver) for the > few remaining users? Maybe doing that on top of my current series makes > sense to have a clean switch from pdev->driver to pdev->dev.driver?! I'd propose using dev_driver_string() for these places: eeh_driver_name() (could change callers to use dev_driver_string()) bcma_host_pci_probe() qm_alloc_uacce() hns3_get_drvinfo() prestera_pci_probe() mlxsw_pci_probe() nfp_get_drvinfo() ssb_pcihost_probe() The use in mpt_device_driver_register() looks unnecessary: it's only to get a struct pci_device_id *, which is passed to ->probe() functions that don't need it. The use in adf_enable_aer() looks wrong: it sets the err_handler pointer in one of the adf_driver structs. I think those structs should be basically immutable, and the drivers that call adf_enable_aer() from their .probe() methods should set ".err_handler = &adf_err_handler" in their static adf_driver definitions instead. I think that basically leaves these: uncore_pci_probe() # .id_table, custom driver "registration" match_id() # .id_table, arch/x86/kernel/probe_roms.c xhci_pci_quirks() # .id_table pci_error_handlers() # roll-your-own AER handling, drivers/misc/cxl/guest.c I think it would be fine to use to_pci_driver(pdev->dev.driver) for these few. Bjorn