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,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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