Re: [PATCH] PCI: remove pcibios_scan_all_fns()

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:26:02PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:08:07AM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > This was #define'd as 0 on all platforms, so let's get rid of it.
> > 
> > This change makes pci_scan_slot() slightly easier to read.
> 
> I don't see why one would want to have a non-zero pcibios_scan_all_fns()
> anyway.

If you have real hardware, absolutely.  If you have a hypervisor that
gives you function 5 of a device (instead of mapping your function 0 to
function 5 of the real device), you'll want something along these lines.

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Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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