* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 02 May 2011 16:14:50 -0700 > Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > That is not right. the device is already there, there is no reason to rescan it. > > We can not get increase resource for them. > > > > Now We already have rescan for pci_bus. > > > > So remove rescan for all pci devices. less confusing > > > > Finally We remove devices, and rescan bus that there were on before. > > > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I'm reluctant to break an existing interface like this, even though > it's only in the "testing" section of the ABI. > > Alex, any comments? Oof, yeah. :-/ I just scanned through the patch series and agree that it makes more sense to put 'rescan' under the bus, and not on individual devices. That said, I'm fairly certain that there are existing tools out there that are depending on this interface, which has been around for a while. I think standard ABI deprecation practices should apply here. Greg, thoughts? /ac -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
