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

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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:15:25 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: is "pci_find_subsys" safe to remove?

  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?

rday
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