Re: [PATCH] mxser: PCI refcounts

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>> Switch to pci ref counts for mxser when handling PCI devices. Use
>> pci_get_device and drop the reference when we finish and unload.
> 
> Please, don't do that. These all drivers need to be rewritten to pci 
> probing (for this one I have a patch, but I waited for confirmation of 
> previous patchset, but nothing has come, so perhaps I will clone it as 
> NEW/EXPERIMENTAL 1.9.1-with-pci-probing-driver) and when pci_find_device 
> is there, we can `grep -r` it to know, which drivers need that. The same 

Just a note. I tried to do all this work, but it was nacked:
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/unpr/linux_patches/pci_find/

You can pick up from there some patches for non-device drivers (such as buses or 
so), if you want to not do the work yourself again...

regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
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