From: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
To: "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Juan David Gonzalez Cobas <david.cobas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 27/30] staging/vme: rework the bus model
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:16:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC7EDE5.6040009@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101026010218.GO10869@flamenco.cs.columbia.edu>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-22 6:36 [-next] staging/vme: various fixes + new driver model for VME Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 01/30] staging/vme: style: convert '&(foo)' to '&foo' Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 02/30] staging/vme_user: return the appropriate error code when module_init fails Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 03/30] staging/vme_user: remove unreachable line Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 04/30] staging/vme: allow non-dynamic allocation of bus numbers Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 05/30] staging/vme: fix bogus clearing of the bus number in vme_free_bus_num Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 06/30] staging/vme/tsi148: use list_for_each_safe when deleting resources in .remove Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 07/30] staging/vme/tsi148: remove double freeing of the IRQ " Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 08/30] staging/vme/tsi148: fix warning in free_irq Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 09/30] staging/vme: fill in struct device's .release, even if it's a NOOP Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 10/30] staging/vme/tsi148: remove unreachable line Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 11/30] staging/vme/tsi148: declare static functions as such Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 12/30] staging/vme/ca91cx42: " Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 13/30] staging/vme_user: declare private variables as static Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 14/30] staging/vme_user: use an unsigned int for counting the number of kparams Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 15/30] staging/vme_user: remove __iomem marking from kern_buf and derivates Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 16/30] staging/vme_user: mark user-space buffers with __user Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 17/30] staging/vme: mark struct vme_master_resource's base address pointer as __iomem Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 18/30] staging/vme/tsi148: mark the registers' " Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 19/30] staging/vme/ca91cx42: " Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 20/30] staging/vme: trivial: rename vme_bus_num_mtx to vme_buses_lock Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 21/30] staging/vme: keep a list of registered buses (bridges) Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 22/30] staging/vme/vme_user: use __dev{init,exit} for .probe and .remove Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 23/30] staging/vme_user: fix usage of the slave resources after they've been freed Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 24/30] staging/vme_user: remove unnecessary call to vme_slave_set Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 25/30] staging/vme_user: add missing calls to vme_master_free calls in .remove Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 26/30] staging/vme: move all contents of vme_bridge.h to vme.h Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 27/30] staging/vme: rework the bus model Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 23:27 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-25 11:24 ` Martyn Welch
2010-10-26 1:02 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-27 9:16 ` Martyn Welch [this message]
2010-10-27 15:40 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 28/30] staging/vme: convert vme_* users to vme_*_ng Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 29/30] staging/vme: remove unused vme_* functions and related code Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 6:36 ` [PATCH 30/30] staging/vme: remove _ng suffixes Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 9:26 ` [-next] staging/vme: various fixes + new driver model for VME Martyn Welch
2010-10-22 23:03 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 10:08 ` Martyn Welch
2010-10-22 23:04 ` Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-22 13:56 ` Greg KH
2010-10-22 22:56 ` Emilio G. Cota
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2010-10-26 1:10 [re-send][-next] " Emilio G. Cota
2010-10-26 1:11 ` [PATCH 27/30] staging/vme: rework the bus model Emilio G. Cota
2010-11-04 4:16 ` Emilio G. Cota
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