netdev - Re: Can we remove pci_find

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:21:15 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
	isdn4linux@...tserv.isdn4linux.de
Subject: Re: Can we remove pci_find_device() yet?

Hi Greg,

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:01:36 -0800 Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
>
> Close, but if you do this, please name the function
> hisax_find_pci_device() or something, and change the drivers to use it
> instead.  Also put a big fat warning in the function that calling this
> is unsafe for any PCI hotplug type machine.

There is another implementation of pci_find_device in
drivers/staging/dt3155/pci-compat.h (used by dt3155_drv.c).
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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