Mainly because there are driverless devices like display adapters,
PCI bridges, or PCI devices with legacy drivers (IDE, for example).
OTOH, pdev_enable_device() most likely will be removed, but
it's 2.5 material.
Ivan.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/