Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:19:49 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@caviumnetworks.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 05:55:48PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 05:45:15PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > The PMU/EDAC devices are all PCI devices do I need the 'struct pci_dev *'.
> > I'm not aware of other ways to access these devices. Please enlighten
> > me if I'm missing something.
> 
> Me enlighten you on Cavium hardware?! You're funny.
> 
> So I don't know whether the PCI hotplug code can run more than one
> function upon PCI ID detection. Probably Greg will say, write a
> multiplexer wrapper. :-)

-ENOCONTEXT....

Anyway, pci questions are best asked on the linux-pci@vger list.  And
yes, all PCI devices end up with a 'struct pci_dev *' automatically.

thanks,

greg k-h