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From: "Oliver Pitzeier" <o.pitzeier@uptime.at>
To: "'Patrick Mochel'" <mochel@osdl.org>
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Subject: RE: kernel 2.5.20 on alpha (RE: [patch] Re: kernel 2.5.18 on alpha)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:33:36 +0200
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Patrick Mochel wrote:
> [ I apologize for answering this so late, and being so tardy 
> in releasing 
> docs explaining all this. I'll be sending docs to the list soon... ]

Alright. This is OK. :o)

[ ... ]

> The short of it: 2.5.19 introduced a struct bus_type that 
> describes each
> bus type in the system. It holds lists of all the devices and 
> drivers that are found for that bus type.

I guessed so and already found this out. :o)

[ ... ]

> The arch/ objects are probably linked before  the driver/
> objects on alpha, so the bus ends up being scanned before the 
> bus type is registered.

Seems, that you're right!

> Can pcibios_init() be demoted to a device_initcall? This would delay 
> probing until all the subsystems could be setup...

Yea, great idea, but I don't have the time at the moment to do this.
I hope anybody else will (please) do it!?

-Oliver


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