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| author | Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> | 2007-04-05 17:19:08 +1000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-05-02 19:02:37 -0700 |
| commit | 65891215e6b822c368fb3f36abf129ed48af8be0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6cc1de94ca66a8f627775d1ddff3600ee8236ed3 /drivers | |
| parent | c9953a73e92df11edd812d863ff741877ea9e58c (diff) | |
PCI: Create alloc_pci_dev(), the one true way to create a struct pci_dev
There are currently several places in the kernel where we kmalloc()
a struct pci_dev and start initialising it. It'd be preferable to
have an allocator so we can ensure the pci_dev is correctly initialised
in one place.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/pci/probe.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c index 629edf39a07..70d37bbf09b 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c @@ -846,6 +846,21 @@ static void pci_release_bus_bridge_dev(struct device *dev) kfree(dev); } +struct pci_dev *alloc_pci_dev(void) +{ + struct pci_dev *dev; + + dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pci_dev), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!dev) + return NULL; + + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->global_list); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->bus_list); + + return dev; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pci_dev); + /* * Read the config data for a PCI device, sanity-check it * and fill in the dev structure... |