Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:51:08 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] deprecate pci_module_init |
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:37:34PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:21:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Due to the change in the way the function works, I'm slowly changing > > drivers over to the new function. It's just too dangerous over time > > to leave it alone. > > this is what i'm not clear about --- how does it work differently?
Read the code :)
In short, pci_module_init() on 2.4 would return the number of pci devices bound to the device, on 2.6, it just always returns 0 if the driver was successfully registered, no knowledge of how many devices bound are ever returned.
Hope this helps,
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