Re: [BKPATCH] bus notifiers for the generic device model

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:10:16AM -0800, Mike Anderson wrote:
> Greg KH [[e-mail]] 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 ).

Whis is called after probe / remove is called for the driver, which can
point to the bus specific functions, like PCI and USB cores do.

thanks,

greg k-h