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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2007-04-05 17:19:08 +1000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-05-02 19:02:37 -0700
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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/probe.c')
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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)
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...