linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 27/30] staging/vme: rework the bus model

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Message-ID: <4CC7EDE5.6040009@ge.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:16:21 +0100
From:	Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@...com>
To:	"Emilio G. Cota" <cota@...ap.org>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Juan David Gonzalez Cobas <david.cobas@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 27/30] staging/vme: rework the bus model

On 26/10/10 02:02, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:24:38 +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
>> On 23/10/10 00:27, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
>>>> * installing drivers even before the bridges they need are present
>>>>   seems counter-intuitive and wrong.
>>
>> There are plenty of instances where a driver can be loaded before the
>> bus is probed or a device is even present. When the bus become
>> available, the probe routine will be run.
> 
> That would be acceptable if and only if no other alternative was available.
> 
> It doesn't make any sense to constrain ourselves to installing
> drivers only BEFORE loading bridge drivers.
> 

I have no idea what your doing, but that simply isn't the case. Your
right - that really would not make any sense, however I'm happily
loading the bridge drivers before any VME device drivers here.

Martyn


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