Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:24:10 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [CFT 1/29] Add bus_type probe, remove, shutdown methods.
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:07:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:29:51PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Add bus_type probe, remove and shutdown methods to replace the
> > corresponding methods in struct device_driver.  This matches
> > the way we handle the suspend/resume methods.
> > 
> > Since the bus methods override the device_driver methods, warn
> > if a device driver is registered whose methods will not be
> > called.
> > 
> > The long-term idea is to remove the device_driver methods entirely.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> All of this looks good to me, want me to add them to my tree and forward
> it on to Linus?

As far as forwarding to Linus, not sure about that yet - I suspect
these patches may cause akpm some reject grief since they're fairly
wide-spread over the kernel.  If akpm prefers the small patches
instead of one large one, it may make sense for it to go via akpm.

I don't have a preference myself - it's whatever's easiest for others.

> thanks for doing this work, I really appreciate it.

Obviously, there's still more to come when I get a round tuit, but
this should provide sufficient infrastructure to allow folk to
move over the remaining areas if I don't get there first.  ISTR
SCSI requires a bit of work.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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