Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:05:02 +0200 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pci_find_device and pci_find_slot mark as deprecated |
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On 8/9/05, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/9/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:54:01AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > This marks these functions as deprecated not to use in latest drivers (it > > > doesn't use reference counts and the device returned by it can disappear in > > > any time). > > > Anyway, no, I don't want these functions marked this way, it's only > > going to cause build noise. I'd much rather you, or others, send me > > patches that remove the usage of these functions so I can just delete > > them entirely. > When the patch was here > (http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/lnx/lnx-pci_find-2.6.13-r3g4_3.patch -- > it'll be certainly sliced into many pieces; of course I didn't cc you > :( ), they told me, that the better way is to let it be, because it > signify the driver as old api based, if there are some warnings, so I > want people to stop using the old functions. So you want me to > continue producing the patches, that removes it? > > regards, > jiri > - 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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