Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:01:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:01:23 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.130]:63421 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:01:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:10:16 -0800 From: Mike Anderson To: Greg KH Cc: James Bottomley , mochel@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BKPATCH] bus notifiers for the generic device model Message-ID: <20021204181016.GB1584@beaverton.ibm.com> Mail-Followup-To: Greg KH , James Bottomley , mochel@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200212041709.gB4H9LA02808@localhost.localdomain> <20021204175602.GC27780@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021204175602.GC27780@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 on an i486 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 23 Greg KH [greg@kroah.com] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:09:21AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > There are certain bus types (notably MCA and parisc internal ones) that like > > to do generic houskeeping operations (claim slots, claim uniform resources > > etc.) when drivers are attached to devices. > > But doesn't the bus specific core know when drivers are attached, as it > was told to register or unregister a specific driver? So I don't see > why this is really needed. The change is when a device is bound to a driver (i.e. when attach / detach is called bus.c ). -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/