Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:52:25 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [BKPATCH] bus notifiers for the generic device model |
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:10:16AM -0800, Mike Anderson wrote: > 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 ).
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,
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