Re: [PATCH] deprecate pci_module_init

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:37:34PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:21:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > Due to the change in the way the function works, I'm slowly changing
> > drivers over to the new function.  It's just too dangerous over time
> > to leave it alone.
> 
> this is what i'm not clear about --- how does it work differently?

Read the code :)

In short, pci_module_init() on 2.4 would return the number of pci
devices bound to the device, on 2.6, it just always returns 0 if the
driver was successfully registered, no knowledge of how many devices
bound are ever returned.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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