Re: pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 21:25:35 EST


> Why does the calgary driver need this? Can we just use pci_get_device()
> instead? Why do you need to walk the device list backwards? Do you get
> false positives going forward?

It doesn't look to be performance critical so the driver can
pci_get_device until the end and use the final hit anyway. IDE reverse is
more problematic but nobody seems to use it.
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