Re: [PATCH] include: pci_find_device remove (include/asm-i386/ide.h)

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Sat Sep 10 2005 - 20:30:33 EST


On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:06:56AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-09-10 at 18:34 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> > If ide_scan_pcibus() finds any pci device, it calls ide_scan_pcidev().
> > ide_scan_pcidev() only seems to handle PCI devices.
> > Are you saying there are PCI IDE devices out there that
> > don't advertise PCI_CLASS_STORAGE_IDE?
>
> Lots of them. We also want to know if PCI is present so we can know
> whether to do the IDE tertiary scan which isn't safe on a PCI bus box.

surely this is worthy of a comment in the code. there's at least 3
people on the cc who're confused bby what it's for.
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