Re: [PATCH 01/11] pci: convert bus code to use dev_groups

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:21:36PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [+cc Sachin]
> 
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > The dev_attrs field of struct bus_type is going away soon, dev_groups
> > should be used instead.  This converts the PCI bus code to use the
> > correct field.
> >
> > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> > Cc: <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> >
> > Bjorn, I can take this through my driver-core tree if you like, just let
> > me know what would be the easiest for you.
> 
> Let me take it, if I can figure out how to do it.  I already tripped
> over a conflict where Sachin made pci_bus_attrs static, which is fine
> in linux-next (with your 244afeca ("PCI: convert bus code to
> use bus_groups") commit), but not fine in pci/next, which didn't have that.

Ah, yeah, that will conflict, sorry.

> I should be able to "git merge --no-ff --log gregkh/driver-core-next"
> into my "next" branch, then apply your patch as usual, right?

You can, but do you really want all of my driver-core changes in there?
I can just send you the one pci change and you can then apply both of
them.  Then when we merge with Linus, there will not be any conflicts as
the same patches just showed up in two different trees, which should be
fine.

thanks,

greg k-h