From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: Introduce pci_find_present
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:35:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061115163556.0937531e@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163608000.31358.134.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:26:39 +0100
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:24 +0000, Alan wrote:
> > This works like pci_dev_present but instead of returning boolean returns
> > the matching pci_device_id entry. This makes it much more useful. Code
> > bloat is basically nil as the old boolean function is rewritten in terms
> > of the new one.
> >
>
> shouldn't this take a refcount on the device (which the user of this
> function then has to put again) ?
Nope. It is returning a pci_device_id from an array of pci_device_id
values that were passed into the function. It is not returning a pci
device so it does not require refcounts.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-15 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-15 16:24 [PATCH] pci: Introduce pci_find_present Alan
2006-11-15 16:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-15 16:35 ` Alan [this message]
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