RE: Registering device

["S.Karthik" <skarthik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg, and konstantyn,

  Thanks for  ur information :)

 I am working in the 2.4 kernels. 
what are the major changes(i have to take care)
 regarding pci in 2.6 kernels over 2.4



On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Prokopenko, Konstantyn wrote:

> Hi Greg,
> 
> No, I didn't mean that pci_register_driver() didn't work for me. I used
> pci_find_device() as inheritance from older kernels :).
> Now I'm writing another PCI driver for a new data processing board and I
> will definitely "upgrade" it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Konstantyn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:53 PM
> To: Prokopenko, Konstantyn
> Cc: 'kernelnewbies'; 'S.Karthik'
> Subject: Re: Registering device
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:10:47PM -0500, Prokopenko, Konstantyn wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the warning :)
> > Yes, we are using "old" 2.4 kernels for our developments and didn't
> migrate
> > to the newest kernels yet.
> 
> Um, 2.4 should also work just fine without using pci_find_device().  In
> fact, that's the kernel series that it was created for (during 2.3).  It
> is not a "new" interface by any means :)
> 
> > We are developing complicated medical machines with proprietary hardware.
> > For our purpose pci_find_device() is ABSOLUTELY legitimate as probably for
> > many "old timer" kernel module developers :).
> 
> Why is it legitimate?  Why would pci_register_driver() not work for you
> now?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 


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