On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> > > The parent field in struct acpi_device is, in fact, redundant, > because the dev.parent field in it effectively points to the same > object and it is used by the driver core. > > Accordingly, the parent field can be dropped from struct acpi_device > and for this purpose define acpi_dev_parent() to retrieve the parent > struct acpi_device pointer from the dev.parent field in struct > acpi_device. Next, update all of the users of the parent field > in struct acpi_device to use acpi_dev_parent() instead of it and > drop it. > > While at it, drop the ACPI_IS_ROOT_DEVICE() macro that is only used > in one place in a confusing way. > > No intentional functional impact. > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > I may have missed some places where adev->parent is used directly, so > if that's happened, please let me know (I'm assuming that 0-day will > pick up this patch and run it through all of the relevant configs > anyway). > > --- [...] > drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 3 ++- Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
