RE: RFC: Changes for PCI

[Khachaturov, Vassilii]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 
> However, I think the driver (only going by your 
description) would be
> more correct to use a pointer to struct pci_dev.  We have a 
token in the
> kernel that is guaranteed 100% unique to any given PCI device:  the
> pointer to its struct pci_dev.

Is it? With a hotplug device removed and another one added,
isn't there a slight chance that the pci_dev pointer to the new device
will get allocated in place of the old one?

Vassilii