linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core:fix driver_match

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Message-ID: <20090417153157.GA15406@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:31:57 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
Cc:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core:fix driver_match_device

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:41:21PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, tom.leiming@...il.com wrote:
> 
> > From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
> > 
> > This patch fixes a bug introduced in commit
> > 49b420a13ff95b449947181190b08367348e3e1b.
> > 
> > If a instance of bus_type doesn't have  .match method,
> > all .probe of drivers in the bus should be called, or else
> > the .probe have not a chance to be called.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
> > Reported-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
> 
> It looks like this patch is _still_ not in the mainline - now that we are 
> past rc2... Unless the problem has been fixed differently (I haven't 
> tested recent kernels), can we __please__ get it upstream?

It's in my queue to go to Linus today.

thanks,

greg k-h
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