Re: Registering device

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On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:10:47PM -0500, Prokopenko, Konstantyn wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the warning :)
> Yes, we are using "old" 2.4 kernels for our developments and didn't migrate
> to the newest kernels yet.

Um, 2.4 should also work just fine without using pci_find_device().  In
fact, that's the kernel series that it was created for (during 2.3).  It
is not a "new" interface by any means :)

> We are developing complicated medical machines with proprietary hardware.
> For our purpose pci_find_device() is ABSOLUTELY legitimate as probably for
> many "old timer" kernel module developers :).

Why is it legitimate?  Why would pci_register_driver() not work for you
now?

thanks,

greg k-h

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