From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964989AbVHIV75 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:59:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964994AbVHIV75 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:59:57 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:59323 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964989AbVHIV74 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:59:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:57:37 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jiri Slaby Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci_find_device and pci_find_slot mark as deprecated Message-ID: <20050809215737.GD22683@kroah.com> References: <42F72D4D.8030102@volny.cz> <200508082354.j78Ns1Cn028468@wscnet.wsc.cz> <20050809041133.GA10552@kroah.com> <4af2d03a0508090258942f536@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4af2d03a0508090258942f536@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:58:19AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 8/9/05, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:54:01AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > This marks these functions as deprecated not to use in latest drivers (it > > > doesn't use reference counts and the device returned by it can disappear in > > > any time). > > > > Did you forget to send this to the PCI maintainer for some reason? > No, my badness, sorry. > > > Anyway, no, I don't want these functions marked this way, it's only > > going to cause build noise. I'd much rather you, or others, send me > > patches that remove the usage of these functions so I can just delete > > them entirely. > When the patch was here > (http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/lnx/lnx-pci_find-2.6.13-r3g4_3.patch -- > it'll be certainly sliced into many pieces; of course I didn't cc you > :( Yes, I can't take anything so big. Just break it up into pieces please. thanks, greg k-h