Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:57:54 +0159 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mxser: PCI refcounts |
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Jiri Slaby wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> Switch to pci ref counts for mxser when handling PCI devices. Use >> pci_get_device and drop the reference when we finish and unload. > > Please, don't do that. These all drivers need to be rewritten to pci > probing (for this one I have a patch, but I waited for confirmation of > previous patchset, but nothing has come, so perhaps I will clone it as > NEW/EXPERIMENTAL 1.9.1-with-pci-probing-driver) and when pci_find_device > is there, we can `grep -r` it to know, which drivers need that. The same
Just a note. I tried to do all this work, but it was nacked: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/unpr/linux_patches/pci_find/
You can pick up from there some patches for non-device drivers (such as buses or so), if you want to not do the work yourself again...
regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E - 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/
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