From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [Resend][PATCH] ACPI / glue: Drop .find_bridge() callback from struct acpi_bus_type Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:20:32 -0800 Message-ID: <20130227222032.GA28616@kroah.com> References: <2612891.I2roH54cPk@vostro.rjw.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2612891.I2roH54cPk@vostro.rjw.lan> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List , LKML , Bjorn Helgaas , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Yinghai Lu List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:06:52PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki > > After PCI has stopped using the .find_bridge() callback in > struct acpi_bus_type, the only remaining users of it are SATA and > USB. However, SATA only pretends to be a user, because it points > that callback to a stub always returning -ENODEV, and USB uses it > incorrectly, because as a result of the way it is used by USB every > device in the system that doesn't have a bus type or parent is > passed to usb_acpi_find_device() for inspection. > > What USB actually needs, though, is to call usb_acpi_find_device() > for USB ports that don't have a bus type defined, but have > usb_port_device_type as their device type. Ick, that's not good. Can you have the original creator of that code (someone else from Intel, I can't remember at the moment), fix that up properly and send me patches? > Please let me know if there are any objections. No objection from me: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman