On Monday 30 January 2012, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Create a virtual mapping cookie for a port on a given PCI device.
> > + * Do not call this directly, it exists to make it easier for architectures
> > + * to override.
> > + */
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_GENERIC_PCI_IOPORT_MAP
> > +extern void __iomem *__pci_ioport_map(struct pci_dev *dev, unsigned long port,
> > + unsigned int nr);
> > +#else
> > +static inline void __iomem *__pci_ioport_map(struct pci_dev *dev,
> > + unsigned long port, unsigned int nr)
> > +{
> > + return ioport_map(port, nr);
> > +}
> > +#endif
> >
> > Arnd
>
> It would be nicer in that it would
> make the kernel a bit smaller for generic architectures
> but this would need to go into a separate header:
> it depends on io.h and io.h depends on pci_iomap.h.
Adding extra dependencies is not good here, I agree.
Maybe a better solution is to use a macro instead of an inline
function then:
#define __pci_ioport_map(dev, port, nr) ioport_map(port, nr)
In general, macros should be avoided, but I think it's the
best tradeoff in this case.
Arnd
