Re: Can we remove pci_find_device() yet?

[Tilman Schmidt]

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Am 2010-01-14 12:03 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:02:14AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
[It would be better to enforce this constraint at runtime.]
>> 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.
> 
> You just have to do it once, otherwise it'll fail after 4 billion times.

I guess we could live with that. pci_find_device() or its successor, the
hisax_find_pci_device() hack, is only called during device setup, once
for most drivers and at the very most 24 times for hfc_pci. Someone
would have to rmmod/insmod a HiSax module more than a hundred million
times to accumulate four billion calls.

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