Re: Removal of pci_find_* in 2.5

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:26:13 -0700


On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:25:27PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:45:53 +0200
>
> That case shouldn't be a problem, since when your device get discovered,
> hopefully, the host controller is already there. Though in some cases,
> host controllers just appear as a sibling device, and in this specific
> case, it may be not have been "discovered" yet.
>
> THat's not what I'm concerned about, what I care about is that there
> still will be a pci_find_*() I can call to see if DEV/ID is on
> the bus. That is the easiest way to perform that search right
> now.

Yes, it will stay. It is needed for situations just like these, and lots
of other valid reasons.

thanks,

greg k-h
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