On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:12:12 +0200 "Angelo Dell'Aera" <buffer@antifork.org> wrote: > Well taking a look at drivers/pci/search.c it's staten that > pci_find_device() is not to be used anymore since the pci device > returned by this function "can disappear at any moment in time". > pci_get_device() is similar to pci_find_device() but it is > safer since it increments a reference count to the pci_dev. > So I thought that this change could be useful, even considering > this function is called just at init time. And what is going to drop the reference to the device when we're done with it? If do nothing but convert pci_find_device() uses into pci_get_device() uses, you're create a device leak. So in order to make these changes properly, you're going to have to add the necessary device reference dropping as well unless something else will take care of it. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
