linux-kernel - Re: is "pci_find_subsys" safe to remove?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:19:35 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is "pci_find_subsys" safe to remove?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 05:15:25PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   it's not just that it falls under the category of PCI "legacy" but,
> if you look in drivers/pci/search.c near the bottom:
> 
> ...
> #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_find_device);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_find_slot);
> #endif /* CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY */
> ...
> 
> that symbol is not being exported even *if* you select PCI_LEGACY.
> i'm guessing that's an oversight but it would certainly suggest that
> no one can possibly be using it, no?

It's used by pci_find_device().

> rday

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/