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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>,
	ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [RFT 2.6.9-rc1 alpha sys_alcor.c] [1/2] convert pci_find_device to pci_get_device
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:35:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914033549.GA13146@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040914020116.GA23058@twiddle.net>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:01:16PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:37:13PM -0700, Hanna Linder wrote:
> > Here is a very simple patch to convert pci_find_device call to pci_get_device.
> > As I don't have an alpha box or cross compiler could someone (wli- wink wink)
> > please verify it compiles and doesn't break anything, thanks a lot.
> 
> Presumably the intent is to eventually remove pci_find_device?

That is the intent.

> These routines run at the very beginning of bootup; there cannot
> possibly be any races.

I agree there isn't any races here, we just need to get rid of
pci_find_device() as people use it in an unsafe manner in lots of
different places.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-13 23:37 [RFT 2.6.9-rc1 alpha sys_alcor.c] [1/2] convert pci_find_device to pci_get_device Hanna Linder
2004-09-14  2:01 ` Richard Henderson
2004-09-14  2:14   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14  3:35   ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-09-14  2:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14  3:17   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 15:52     ` Hanna Linder
2004-09-14 17:07       ` Herbert Poetzl

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