[PATCH] ath9k: use unmanaged PCI functions in ath9k_pci_owl_loader

Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 14:07:16 PDT 2024


On 03.04.2024 23:23, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Using the device-managed versions has no benefit here, because
>> resources are released as part of the asynchronous fw loading.
>>
>> Actual reason why I got here is that I was looking for places with
>> dubious use of pcim_pin_device().
> 
> Could you please expand the commit message to explain what this means in
> a bit more detail? That will be helpful to someone who wants to
> understand what the difference between these versions is and why this
> change makes sense, but who is not that familiar with how these internal
> bits are really supposed to work. Someone like myself, in other words :)
> 
Sure. I'll add some more context in a v2.

> -Toke
Heiner



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