Re: [PATCH v4 7/9] PCI: Make pci_match_one_device() match on ID instead of device

Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:24:32 -0500
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-ide,dev.linux.lists.driver-core,org.freedesktop.lists.dri-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-pci,org.kernel.vger.linux-scsi,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <20260728162432.GA1322140@bhelgaas>
[cc->to: Dave, Vaibhav, Jens, Greg, GOTO, YOKOTA: possible acks?
series: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 01:17:50PM +0100, Gary Guo wrote:
> On Fri Jul 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM BST, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 11:00:46PM +0100, Gary Guo wrote:
> >> PCI dynamic ID needs to match IDs against a new ID to see if it already
> >> exists. Existing APIs can only match IDs against devices, causing the
> >> dynamic ID insertion code to create a temporary device only for matching
> >> purpose. Rename pci_match_one_device() to pci_match_one_id() so it can be
> >> used for this purpose instead; add a pci_id_from_device() helper to make it
> >> easy to convert users.
> >
> > s/causing the ... code to create/so the ... code creates/
> > s/purpose/purposes/
> >
> >> Similarly, convert pci_match_id() to do_pci_match_id(). But keep the
> >> existing API because there are many users.
> >> 
> >> Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <[email protected]>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <[email protected]>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
> >
> > What's the merge strategy?  If these all need to be merged
> > together, feel free to include the PCI patches whereever you merge
> > the series.
> 
> I think the series should be merged together, as I consider the
> driver changes included in this series being "fixing the users".
> 
> The series should probably be taken via the PCI tree. I suppose one
> can also argue that the lifetime issue with device IDs isn't unique
> to PCI bus so this can also be considered driver-core material, but
> given that Greg has already taken the USB fixes via the USB tree the
> only unfixed bus left is PCI.
> 
> So unless Danilo thinks otherwise I'd suggest the series be taken as
> a whole via PCI.

I'm happy to take via PCI.  It would be great to have acks/reviewed-by
from the non-PCI maintainers:

  David Airlie <[email protected]> (agp)

  Vaibhav Gupta <[email protected]> (tpci200)
  Jens Taprogge <[email protected]> (tpci200)
  Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> (tpci200)

  GOTO Masanori <[email protected]> (nsp32)
  YOKOTA Hiroshi <[email protected]> (nsp32)