Re: [PATCH] pci_find_device and pci_find_slot mark as deprecated

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 23:19:18 EST


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?

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.

thanks,

greg k-h
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