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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:25:30 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: Removal of pci_find_* in 2.5
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 02:07:01PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> The driver is a mtd map driver.  It knows there is a rom chip behind 
> a pci->isa bridge.  And it needs to find the pci->isa bridge to
> properly set it up to access the rom chip (enable writes and the
> like).  
> 
> It isn't a driver for the pci->isa bridge, (I'm not even certain we
> have a good model for that).  So it does not use pci_register_driver.
> 
> If you can give me a good proposal for how to accomplish that kind of
> functionality I would be happy to use the appropriate
> xxx_register_driver.

I don't think there is a good way for you to convert over to
_register_driver(), that's the main reason I'm keeping the pci_find_*
functions around, they are quite useful for lots of situations.

It doesn't sound like you are worrying about your device working in a
pci hotplug system, and you would probably be willing do any pci device
conversion work to the new driver model yourself, right?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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