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

Patrick Mochel (mochel@osdl.org)
Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:10:16 -0600 (CST)


Just to follow up..

> I'm happy with keeping probe and remove in the bus specific driver template
> and having the <bustype>_add_driver install generic device probe and remove
> routines to handle these cases. My point was that the docs implied I should
> use the generic driver probe and remove routines, which I can't without some
> type of functionality like this.
>
> If you envisage us never eliminating the driver specific probe and remove
> routines, I'm happy. I'm less happy if there will come a day when I have to
> revisit all the converted drivers to do the elimination.

I don't see us eliminating the bus-specific probe() and remove() methods.
At least not for a very long time.

-pat

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