Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:27:10 -0400


"Khachaturov, Vassilii" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > However, I think the driver (only going by your
> description) would be
> > more correct to use a pointer to struct pci_dev. We have a
> token in the
> > kernel that is guaranteed 100% unique to any given PCI device: the
> > pointer to its struct pci_dev.
>
> Is it? With a hotplug device removed and another one added,
> isn't there a slight chance that the pci_dev pointer to the new device
> will get allocated in place of the old one?

If you want to get pedantic, yes ;-) The pci_dev pointer is unique for
the lifetime of the PCI device, which works just as well in the example
used in the thread.

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