From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init. mca_bus_type even if !MCA_bus
Date: 17 May 2004 17:18:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1084832306.2092.67.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040517151412.1f7fb7d4.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Why is it appropriate to register the MCA bus type when there is no
> MCA bus present?
The legacy bus functions all have a bus_for_each_dev in them. This
can't execute correctly unless the bus is registered. So either a check
for MCA_bus has to be added to each of them, or we register the bus but
attach no devices, so the loop exits without doing anything.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-17 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-17 21:46 [PATCH] init. mca_bus_type even if !MCA_bus Randy.Dunlap
2004-05-17 22:14 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 22:08 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-05-17 22:52 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 22:58 ` Greg KH
2004-05-17 23:02 ` James Bottomley
2004-05-17 22:18 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-05-17 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
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