netdev - Re: Can we remove pci_find

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Message-ID: <20100112004635.GA10597@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:46:35 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
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?

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:21:15AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 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).

That file will be going away soon and the whole driver will be ported to
use the "real" PCI api, so don't worry about breaking any staging
drivers :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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