Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:25:32PM -0800, Sanjay Acharya wrote:
What is the exact reason for deprecating pci_find_device and replacing
it with pci_get_device?
Did you read the description of what pci_get_device() does? If you only
use pci_find_device(), your code will not work in systems that support
pci hotplug (which is becoming more and more popular due to pci express
and cardbus and expresscard)
Yes I read the documentation but did not get a clear picture of it.
In reality, I'd also like to get rid of pci_get_device() too, so neither
of these calls should _ever_ be added to new code.
Yes, I read in the document that newer drivers should be using
pci_register_driver and almost all of the pci drivers that I checked
seem to be using this. I will be using this in our driver.
Is there a reason you are using these functions?
No there are no reasons. Our driver was making use of the old
"pci_find_device" and I am re-coding this part to include the new changes.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
Thanks greg.
Sanjay
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