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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate pci_module_init
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:51:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041104005107.GA15301@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041104003734.GA17467@taniwha.stupidest.org>

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:37:34PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:21:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > Due to the change in the way the function works, I'm slowly changing
> > drivers over to the new function.  It's just too dangerous over time
> > to leave it alone.
> 
> this is what i'm not clear about --- how does it work differently?

Read the code :)

In short, pci_module_init() on 2.4 would return the number of pci
devices bound to the device, on 2.6, it just always returns 0 if the
driver was successfully registered, no knowledge of how many devices
bound are ever returned.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-04  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-03  9:10 [PATCH] deprecate pci_module_init Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-03 17:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-03 19:07   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-03 19:13     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-03 19:20       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-04  0:21       ` Greg KH
2004-11-04  0:37         ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-04  0:51           ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-11-04  0:53             ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-04  1:12             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-03 20:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-03 20:49   ` Chris Wedgwood

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