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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2007-04-05 03:19:08 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-05-02 22:02:37 -0400
commit65891215e6b822c368fb3f36abf129ed48af8be0 (patch)
tree6cc1de94ca66a8f627775d1ddff3600ee8236ed3 /drivers/pci
parentc9953a73e92df11edd812d863ff741877ea9e58c (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/pci')
-rw-r--r--drivers/pci/probe.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
index 629edf39a07d..70d37bbf09bb 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)
846 kfree(dev); 846 kfree(dev);
847} 847}
848 848
849struct pci_dev *alloc_pci_dev(void)
850{
851 struct pci_dev *dev;
852
853 dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pci_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
854 if (!dev)
855 return NULL;
856
857 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->global_list);
858 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->bus_list);
859
860 return dev;
861}
862EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pci_dev);
863
849/* 864/*
850 * Read the config data for a PCI device, sanity-check it 865 * Read the config data for a PCI device, sanity-check it
851 * and fill in the dev structure... 866 * and fill in the dev structure...