On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:37:35PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > struct pci_dev tracks the bound pci driver twice. This series is about > removing this duplication. > > The first two patches are just cleanups. The third patch introduces a > wrapper that abstracts access to struct pci_dev->driver. In the next > patch (hopefully) all users are converted to use the new wrapper and > finally the fifth patch removes the duplication. > > Note this series is only build tested (allmodconfig on several > architectures). > > I'm open to restructure this series if this simplifies things. E.g. the > use of the new wrapper in drivers/pci could be squashed into the patch > introducing the wrapper. Patch 4 could be split by maintainer tree or > squashed into patch 3 completely. > > Best regards > Uwe > > Uwe Kleine-König (5): > PCI: Simplify pci_device_remove() > PCI: Drop useless check from pci_device_probe() > PCI: Provide wrapper to access a pci_dev's bound driver > PCI: Adapt all code locations to not use struct pci_dev::driver > directly > PCI: Drop duplicated tracking of a pci_dev's bound driver Other than my objection to patch 5/5 lack of changelog, looks sane to me: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
