Re: [PATCH v3] hisi_lpc: Use acpi_dev_for_each_child()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jul 01 2022 - 04:35:06 EST


On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 08:13:52PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] hisi_lpc: Use acpi_dev_for_each_child()
>
> Instead of walking the list of children of an ACPI device directly,
> use acpi_dev_for_each_child() to carry out an action for all of
> the given ACPI device's children.
>
> This will help to eliminate the children list head from struct
> acpi_device as it is redundant and it is used in questionable ways
> in some places (in particular, locking is needed for walking the
> list pointed to it safely, but it is often missing).
>
> While at it, simplify hisi_lpc_acpi_set_io_res() by making it accept
> a struct acpi_device pointer from the caller, instead of going to
> struct device and back to get the same result, and clean up confusion
> regarding hostdev and its ACPI companion in that function.
>
> Also remove a redundant check from it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>