Re: Can we remove pci_find_device() yet?

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:02:14AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > e.g. set some global variable that forbids device removal
> > and warn in the kernel log. In theory this could be also
> > done per device, but I guess that would be more effort.
> 
> There is a simpler way to do that, which is to just leak a reference in
> the hisax_find_pci_device hack. The pci_dev won't be going anywhere then.

You just have to do it once, otherwise it'll fail after 4 billion times.

-Andi


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