Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754162Ab0AKUGL (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:06:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754142Ab0AKUGJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:06:09 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:60778 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754082Ab0AKUGI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:06:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:01:36 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Tilman Schmidt Cc: Stephen Rothwell , LKML , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Karsten Keil , isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de Subject: Re: Can we remove pci_find_device() yet? Message-ID: <20100111200136.GA29955@suse.de> References: <20100108112236.462a3da2.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100108044646.GC6611@suse.de> <4B4B802A.2010709@imap.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B4B802A.2010709@imap.cc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1746 Lines: 39 On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:46:50PM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 08.01.2010 05:46 schrieb Greg KH: > > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:22:36AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > >> > >> This interface has been deprecated since November 2006, so can something > >> be done about the last users (I think only some ISDN drivers)? > > That would be the HiSax I4L drivers. > > > Ick, the "new" isdn drivers are still not merged that replace those > > older ones? I thought that happened a while ago. > > mISDN, which is the designated successor to HiSax, has indeed been > merged in 2008. > > Trouble is, mISDN's userspace interface is completely different from I4L. > Removing HiSax would therefore break userspace compatibility for current > users of HiSax supported devices. In order to switch to mISDN they'll > have to replace all of their ISDN4Linux applications with equivalent > mISDN ones, and I'm not even sure there is a replacement for everything. > > Just an idea - as a stopgap measure, couldn't pci_find_device() be made > a private function of the HiSax drivers? That way, the remainder of the > kernel won't be polluted by it anymore, and the PCI_LEGACY config option > can be dropped. Something like this quick and dirty hack: Close, but if you do this, please name the function hisax_find_pci_device() or something, and change the drivers to use it instead. Also put a big fat warning in the function that calling this is unsafe for any PCI hotplug type machine. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/