any value in "pci_request_region_exclusive()" routine?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  poking around in memory allocation code and ran across this in
drivers/pci/pci.c. first, there's this generic region request routine
that accepts a final parameter as to whether it's an "exclusive"
request:

static int __pci_request_region(struct pci_dev *pdev, int bar, const char *res_name,
int exclusive)
{
        struct pci_devres *dr;
        ...

and, not surprisingly, there are a couple more user-friendly routines
that wrap around it:

int pci_request_region(struct pci_dev *pdev, int bar, const char *res_name)
{
        return __pci_request_region(pdev, bar, res_name, 0);
}
... snip ...
int pci_request_region_exclusive(struct pci_dev *pdev, int bar, const char *res_name)
{
        return __pci_request_region(pdev, bar, res_name, IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE);
}

  the above would normally suggest that, since the generic routine's
name begins with "__", it's typically a lower-level routine that
wouldn't be called directly, and one would expect to see calls to the
wrapper routines:

* pci_request_reqion()
* pci_request_region_exclusive()

scattered throughout the kernel source tree.

  there are certainly enough calls to the first (non-exclusive)
routine, but this is it for the second:

$ grep -rw pci_request_region_exclusive *
drivers/pci/pci.c: *	pci_request_region_exclusive - Reserved PCI I/O and memory resource
drivers/pci/pci.c:int pci_request_region_exclusive(struct pci_dev *pdev, int bar, const char *res_name)
drivers/pci/pci.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_request_region_exclusive);
include/linux/pci.h:int __must_check pci_request_region_exclusive(struct pci_dev *, int, const char *);
$

  in short, *nobody* appears to call that second routine for exclusive
access. am i missing something here? if you search for calls to the
generic routine, this is all you find:

$ grep -rw __pci_request_region *
drivers/pci/pci.c: *	__pci_request_region - Reserved PCI I/O and memory resource
drivers/pci/pci.c:static int __pci_request_region(struct pci_dev *pdev, int bar, const char *res_name,
drivers/pci/pci.c:	return __pci_request_region(pdev, bar, res_name, 0);
drivers/pci/pci.c:	return __pci_request_region(pdev, bar, res_name, IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE);
drivers/pci/pci.c:			if (__pci_request_region(pdev, i, res_name, excl))
$

  so what's the value of that "exclusive" wrapper routine?

rday

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