Re: [PATCH] pci/aer: Get rid of aer_recover_work_func() forward declaration

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri May 11 2018 - 15:09:16 EST


On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 02:00:13PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 06:39:23PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Just move the actual function up so that it is visible to its user
> > aer_recover_queue().
>
> Good idea.
>
> Not *directly* related, but I'm really tired of the clutter of all these
> separate files, and I'm thinking of squashing
>
> drivers/pci/pcie/aer/* => drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv* => drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c
> drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp* => drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.c
> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp* => drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.c
> etc.
>
> That would let us make many more things static and (more importantly,
> IMO), make it easier to browse the code.

Yeah, it probably is of no use to have separate compilation units like

aerdriver-objs := aerdrv_errprint.o aerdrv_core.o aerdrv.o

for example, which practically get always built together.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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