Re: refcount leak in pci_get_device()?

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:23:20PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote:
> And the pci_get_dev_by_id() is not safe again the PCI device removal.
> It might fire a warning in bus_find_device() when reference count of
> the knode_bus is decreased to 0 by pci_remove_bus().

Is this something new?  Hasn't this always been that way?  Why would you
be wanting to call this function anyway?

thanks,

greg k-h
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