Re: Removal of pci_find_* in 2.5

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:25:27PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:45:53 +0200
>    
>    That case shouldn't be a problem, since when your device get discovered,
>    hopefully, the host controller is already there. Though in some cases,
>    host controllers just appear as a sibling device, and in this specific
>    case, it may be not have been "discovered" yet.
> 
> THat's not what I'm concerned about, what I care about is that there
> still will be a pci_find_*() I can call to see if DEV/ID is on
> the bus.  That is the easiest way to perform that search right
> now.

Yes, it will stay.  It is needed for situations just like these, and lots
of other valid reasons.

thanks,

greg k-h