linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 10/11] PCI: Add match_driver in struct pci

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQWaiPDpmdxm34YPoxcGVMUV+rgFqFZVBZsQy7JOaA4yXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:22:04 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 10/11] PCI: Add match_driver in struct pci_dev

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> On Thursday, January 17, 2013 11:53:21 PM Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> with that we could move out attaching driver for pci device,
>> out of device_add for pci hot add path.
>>
>> pci_bus_attach_device() will attach driver to pci device.
>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
>
> for the code, but you still aren't saying in the changelog why the change
> is needed.

Thanks.

Please check if the changelog is good to you.

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Subject: [PATCH] PCI: Skip attaching driver in device_add()

We want to add pci device to device tree as early as possible but
delay attach driver in next following path.

To make that patch smaller, in this patch:

We add match_driver field in pci_dev and default vaule is false, it will
make pci_bus_match fail, so device_add  will skip attaching driver,
then pci_bus_attach_device() will set match_driver to true so
pci_bus_match will return true and device_attach will attach driver
to pci device.

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