Re: [PATCH v9 1/3] dmaengine: ptdma: Initial driver for the AMD PTDMA

[Sanjay R Mehta <sanmehta@amd.com>]

On 6/16/2021 5:53 PM, Greg KH wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 05:30:49PM +0530, Sanjay R Mehta wrote:
>> The pt_device is allocated and initialized in the PCI probe function and
>> then we just get the "dev" from the "pci_dev" object and save it in
>> "pt->dev" as shown in below snippet.
>>
>>
>>    static int pt_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct
>> pci_device_id *id)
>>    {
>>       struct pt_device *pt;
>>       struct pt_msix *pt_msix;
>>       struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> 
> So "dev" is a parent here, or something else?
> 
> If it is the parent, please call it such otherwise it is confusing.
> 
> If you are creating child devices, what bus do they belong to?
> 
> Can you fix up this series and resend it so that we can review it again?
> 

Hi Greg,

Yes, "dev" is the parent here and there are no child devices created.

My apologies for not calling it rightly.

Sure, I will fix up this series addressing all the comments and will
send the next version.

Thanks,
-Sanjay