Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/pci/probe.c |   15 +++++++++++++++
 include/linux/pci.h |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff -puN drivers/pci/probe.c~gregkh-pci-pci-create-alloc_pci_dev-the-one-true-way-to-create-a-struct-pci_dev drivers/pci/probe.c
--- a/drivers/pci/probe.c~gregkh-pci-pci-create-alloc_pci_dev-the-one-true-way-to-create-a-struct-pci_dev
+++ a/drivers/pci/probe.c
@@ -865,6 +865,21 @@ static void pci_release_bus_bridge_dev(s
 	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...
diff -puN include/linux/pci.h~gregkh-pci-pci-create-alloc_pci_dev-the-one-true-way-to-create-a-struct-pci_dev include/linux/pci.h
--- a/include/linux/pci.h~gregkh-pci-pci-create-alloc_pci_dev-the-one-true-way-to-create-a-struct-pci_dev
+++ a/include/linux/pci.h
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ struct pci_dev {
 #endif
 };
 
+extern struct pci_dev *alloc_pci_dev(void);
+
 #define pci_dev_g(n) list_entry(n, struct pci_dev, global_list)
 #define pci_dev_b(n) list_entry(n, struct pci_dev, bus_list)
 #define	to_pci_dev(n) container_of(n, struct pci_dev, dev)
_