Re: [PATCH] PCI: Remove unused 'node' member from struct pci_driver

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Dec 26 2023 - 19:01:35 EST


On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 02:35:05PM +0100, Mathias Krause wrote:
> Remove the unused 'node' member. It got replaced by device_driver
> chaining more than 20 years ago in commit 4b4a837f2b57 ("PCI: start to
> use common fields of struct device_driver more...") of the history.git
> tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied with Kalle's ack to pci/misc for v6.8, thanks!

> ---
> There is only one "user" that makes use of the 'node' member, which is
> the brcm80211 driver. However, its "use" is clearly wrong (a list head
> cannot be initialized this way) and, obviously, not needed.
>
> If netdev folks instead want to split this off into a separate commit, I
> can do that. However, I don't expect any cross-tree conflicts regarding
> this change.
>
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c | 1 -
> include/linux/pci.h | 2 --
> 2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c
> index 80220685f5e4..d7fb88bb6ae1 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c
> @@ -2707,7 +2707,6 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, brcmf_pcie_devid_table);
>
>
> static struct pci_driver brcmf_pciedrvr = {
> - .node = {},
> .name = KBUILD_MODNAME,
> .id_table = brcmf_pcie_devid_table,
> .probe = brcmf_pcie_probe,
> diff --git a/include/linux/pci.h b/include/linux/pci.h
> index dea043bc1e38..835a937fd233 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pci.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pci.h
> @@ -885,7 +885,6 @@ struct module;
>
> /**
> * struct pci_driver - PCI driver structure
> - * @node: List of driver structures.
> * @name: Driver name.
> * @id_table: Pointer to table of device IDs the driver is
> * interested in. Most drivers should export this
> @@ -940,7 +939,6 @@ struct module;
> * own I/O address space.
> */
> struct pci_driver {
> - struct list_head node;
> const char *name;
> const struct pci_device_id *id_table; /* Must be non-NULL for probe to be called */
> int (*probe)(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id); /* New device inserted */
> --
> 2.39.2
>