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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pci.h b/include/linux/pci.h
index 99d45751830c..c02074785d40 100644
--- a/include/linux/pci.h
+++ b/include/linux/pci.h
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ struct pci_dev {
 #endif
 };
 
+extern struct pci_dev *alloc_pci_dev(void);
+
 #define pci_dev_g(n) list_entry(n, struct pci_dev, global_list)
 #define pci_dev_b(n) list_entry(n, struct pci_dev, bus_list)
 #define to_pci_dev(n) container_of(n, struct pci_dev, dev)