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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] amba: Export amba_bustype
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:16:28PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> wrote:
> > This patch is provided in the context of allowing the Coresight driver
> > subsystem to be loaded as modules. Coresight uses amba_bus in its call
> > to bus_find_device() in of_coresight_get_endpoint_device() when
> > searching for a configurable endpoint device. This patch allows
> > Coresight to reference amba_bustype when built as a module.
>
> > --- a/drivers/amba/bus.c
> > +++ b/drivers/amba/bus.c
> > @@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ struct bus_type amba_bustype = {
> > .pm = &amba_pm,
> > .force_dma = true,
> > };
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(amba_bustype);
>
> Oh,
>
> What wrong with the approach let's say similar to PCI bus?
>
> Whenever you have a struct device you may use two helpers:
>
> dev_is_pci() -> is the device of PCI bus type?
> to_pci_dev() -> get's container of struct device for PCI bus case

How does that help with bus_find_device() which requires the bus_type
structure for the type of devices to be searched?

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