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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org,
	davej@codemonkey.org.uk, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2-mm2] Create new function to see if pci dev is present
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:19:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040924211912.GC7619@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040924200231.A30391@infradead.org>

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:02:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:26:40PM -0700, Hanna Linder wrote:
> > 
> > Greg asked in a previous janitors thread:
> > "What we need is a simple "Is this pci device present right now" type
> > function, to solve the mess that logic like this needs."
> > 
> > OK. How about this one? It uses pci_get_device but instead of returning
> > the dev it returns 1 if the device is present and 0 if it isnt. This take the
> > burdon off the driver from having to know when to use pci_dev_put or
> > not and should be cleaner for future maintenance work.
> > 
> > Ive tested it with two patches that will follow.
> 
> Please include subdevice/subvendor id

Good idea, but do you see any places in the kernel that would use those
fields, instead of always setting them to PCI_ANY_ID?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-24 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-23 22:26 [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2-mm2] Create new function to see if pci dev is present Hanna Linder
2004-09-23 22:50 ` Greg KH
2004-09-24 19:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-24 21:19   ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-09-24 21:00     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-26 14:10       ` Greg KH
2004-09-28 17:24         ` Greg KH
2004-09-28 17:25           ` Greg KH
2004-09-28 17:26           ` Greg KH
2004-09-24 21:26     ` [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2-mm2] " H. Peter Anvin

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