Re: Can we remove pci_find_device() yet?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Jan 14 2010 - 05:59:26 EST


> e.g. set some global variable that forbids device removal
> and warn in the kernel log. In theory this could be also
> done per device, but I guess that would be more effort.

There is a simpler way to do that, which is to just leak a reference in
the hisax_find_pci_device hack. The pci_dev won't be going anywhere then.
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