From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932499AbVHIKFF (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 06:05:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932490AbVHIKFF (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 06:05:05 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.206]:49540 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932499AbVHIKFD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 06:05:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DexprlGT3rqFnx6XhzAWZBbDATFLLxL+jdMpvUrFDu2q1FQJ9Xj5FIjZl9ptfNDc3xBo9sDtIo4cKQykSLcLgsMq7Ybitnlod8qCIXb7685aomZhYF2b269c2WZ0qlA5EzhUzS5CAgHSF72nNE2hwyJf5cdS9r2iRPPxRy7M2ls= Message-ID: <4af2d03a05080903055af870bf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:05:02 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby To: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci_find_device and pci_find_slot mark as deprecated Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4af2d03a0508090258942f536@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <42F72D4D.8030102@volny.cz> <200508082354.j78Ns1Cn028468@wscnet.wsc.cz> <20050809041133.GA10552@kroah.com> <4af2d03a0508090258942f536@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/9/05, 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). > > > 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 > :( ), they told me, that the better way is to let it be, because it > signify the driver as old api based, if there are some warnings, so I > want people to stop using the old functions. So you want me to > continue producing the patches, that removes it? > > regards, > jiri >