From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
Cc: mochel@osdl.org, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jgarzik@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic PCI Device IDs
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:56:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030506035635.GA5403@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052186678.19726.9.camel@iguana.localdomain>
On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 09:04:35PM -0500, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> > Unfortunatly, looking at the driver core real quickly, I don't see a
> > simple way to kick the probe cycle off again for all pci devices, but
> > I'm probably just missing something somewhere...
>
> I think drivers/base/bus.c: driver_attach() is what we want, which will
> walk the list of the bus's devices and run bus_match() which is
> pci_bus_match() which will scan for us. Just need to un-static
> driver_attach() I expect. Pat, does this sound right?
You can't just call driver_attach(), as the bus semaphore needs to be
locked before doing so. In short, you almost need to duplicate
bus_add_driver(), but not quite :)
Good luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-06 2:04 [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic PCI Device IDs Matt_Domsch
2003-05-06 3:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-05-06 16:35 ` Matt Domsch
2003-05-10 0:11 ` Greg KH
2003-05-13 21:28 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-13 21:33 ` Patrick Mochel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-01 0:39 Matt_Domsch
2003-05-02 23:15 ` Greg KH
2003-05-05 5:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-06 0:17 ` Greg KH
2003-05-05 22:51 ` Matt Domsch
2003-05-06 0:15 ` Greg KH
2003-04-30 21:45 Matt Domsch
2003-04-30 21:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-30 22:24 ` Greg KH
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