Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Greg KH wrote:
>
>>Here's some changesets that remove the pcibios_find_class(),
>>pci_find_device(), and pcibios_present() functions. These functions
>>have been marked as obsolete since the 2.2 kernel, so it's about time
>>that we removed them.
>
>
> They are still in use by a lot of drivers.. I hate to break even more
> drivers at this point in 2.5.x, and so quite frankly I'd rather just do
> this in early 2.7.x instead. Unless somebody really steps up to the plate
> and also fixes the drivers ("it's a ton of fun, and imagine all the
> adoration you'll get from teenage girls/boys/ninja turtles for doing it")
Removing pcibios_present() makes a lot of sense, I have considered it
deprecated for quite a while now.
Further (more a note to Greg), often the pci[bios]_present() call can be
removed completely: when it is followed by a pci_find_xxx or
pci_register_driver() probe, which will obviously not find anything if
PCI bus is absent, the pci_present() call can be removed completely.
I would love to deprecate pcibios_{read,write}_foo but I don't think we
can remove them yet. Likewise for pcibios_find_xxx... I haven't look at
all the examples, but I would be worried about breaking ancient (but
working) code.
That said, if you wanna do the cleanup, I wouldn't object to removing
pcibios_find_xxx...
Jeff
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