Re: searching for pci busses

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:52:31PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 5/30/06, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> >On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:59:39PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> Greg KH wrote:
> >> >On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 01:12:26AM +0159, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >> >>Hello,
> >> >>
> >> >>I want to ask, if there is any function to call (as we debated with
> >> >>Jeff), which
> >> >>does something like this:
> >> >>1) I have some vendor/device ids in table
> >> >>2) I want to traverse raws of the table and compare to system devices,
> >> >>and if
> >> >>found, stop and return pci_dev struct (or raw in the table).
> >> >
> >> >What's wrong with pci_match_id()?
> >> >
> >> >Or just using the pci_register_driver() function properly, which handles
> >> >all of this logic for you?
> >>
> >> These aren't PCI devices proper.  These are embedded non-PCI devices,
> >> which must search for an unrelated PCI device to figure out what type of
> >> platform they are on.
> >
> >Ok, then use pci_match_id() or pci_get_device().
> 
> This is how DRM does it...

6 words that should never be uttered as a reason to justify anything...

thanks,

greg k-h