From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:51373 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755209Ab2JBRrO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 13:47:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 10:47:12 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] device: add drivers_autoprobe in struct device Message-ID: <20121002174712.GA11843@kroah.com> References: <1349159588-15029-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1349159588-15029-2-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20121002133303.GA502@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 10:39:25AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:32:59PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> To use to control the delay attach driver for specific device. > >> > >> Will use bus notifier to toggle this bits when needed. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu > >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > Without a whole lot more context as to why you want this change, no, > > sorry, I'll not accept it. > > Sorry, I should put you on the to list for the whole patchset. > > Those patches address Bjorn's request: > 1. kill acpi_pci_root_start in drivers/acpi/pci_root.c > 2. register pci device to device as soon as possible, so for_each_pci_device > could be used early before pci_bus_add_devices. > > please check change log patch2-4. Sorry, I still don't see what is so special about PCI that they have to do something different here. What am I missing? greg k-h