Re: [PATCH 01/28] PCI: Rip out pci_bus_add_devices() from pci_scan_bus()

Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-19T08:23:13Z

On Friday 16 January 2015 15:16:28 Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com> wrote:
> >> Pci_bus_add_devices() should not be placed in pci_scan_bus().
> >> Now pci device will be added to driver core once its
> >> creation. All things left in pci_bus_add_devices() are
> >> driver attachment and other trivial sysfs things.
> >> Pci_scan_bus() should be the function responsible for
> >> scanning PCI devices, not including driver attachment.
> >> Other, some callers(m68k,unicore32,alpha) of pci_scan_bus()
> >> will call pci_bus_size_bridges() and pci_bus_assign_resources()
> >> after pci_scan_bus().
> >>
> >> E.g.
> >> In m68k
> >> mcf_pci_init()
> >> pci_scan_bus()
> >> ...
> >> pci_bus_add_devices() --- try to attach driver
> >> pci_fixup_irqs()
> >> pci_bus_size_bridges()
> >> pci_bus_assign_resources()
> >>
> >> It is not correct, resources should be assigned correctly
> >> before attaching driver.
> >
> No, for booting path, at that time pci drivers are *NOT* loaded yet.

This may be true for the m68k example, and traditionally for all
PCI hosts, but as we move to a more modular architecture with
drivers/pci/hosts, you can have PCI host drivers that are loadable
modules and get loaded after the built-in drivers are initialized,
or you can have host drivers that depend on a resource (clock,
regulator, reset, gpio, ...) that in turn comes from a driver
that gets initialized later.

Arnd