Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Oliver Pitzeier" <> | 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)
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> 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)
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> 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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