PCI: Create alloc_pci_dev(), the one true way to create a struct pci_dev

[powerpc.git] / drivers / pci / probe.c

diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
index 629edf3..70d37bb 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
@@ -846,6 +846,21 @@ static void pci_release_bus_bridge_dev(struct device *dev)
        kfree(dev);
 }
 
+struct pci_dev *alloc_pci_dev(void)
+{
+       struct pci_dev *dev;
+
+       dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pci_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!dev)
+               return NULL;
+
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->global_list);
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->bus_list);
+
+       return dev;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pci_dev);
+
 /*
  * Read the config data for a PCI device, sanity-check it
  * and fill in the dev structure...