Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:14:12 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [RFT 2.6.9-rc1 alpha sys_alcor.c] [1/2] convert pci_find_device to pci_get_device
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:37:13PM -0700, Hanna Linder wrote:
>> Here is a very simple patch to convert pci_find_device call to pci_get_device.
>> As I don't have an alpha box or cross compiler could someone (wli- wink wink)
>> please verify it compiles and doesn't break anything, thanks a lot.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:01:16PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Presumably the intent is to eventually remove pci_find_device?
> These routines run at the very beginning of bootup; there cannot
> possibly be any races.

I think it's okay if the intent is to remove pci_find_device() entirely
so drivers etc. don't trip over it. The bootstrap changes are, I
suppose, only to enable the eventual removal, and not meant to resolve
races that may exist there per se.


-- wli
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