Re: [BKPATCH] bus notifiers for the generic device model
Mike Anderson (andmike@us.ibm.com)
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:10:16 -0800
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
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Michael Anderson
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