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SubjectRe: [PATCH] pci_find_device and pci_find_slot mark as deprecated
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
>
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