From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pci: add to global list before sysfs?
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:37:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208122634.6958.59.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080405185501.41ec42a7@mjolnir.drzeus.cx>
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 18:55 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > Why not just create a thread in your driver, or timer, and sleep
> until
> > you see the other devices? If after a certian time you never do,
> then
> > bail out.
> >
> > That should work properly for you for both cases (startup and
> loading
> > later.)
> >
You don't need a timer. You can just use the notifier mechanism I added
a while ago that should call you on device addition and removal on the
bus type you are interested in.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-13 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-04 17:13 pci: add to global list before sysfs? Pierre Ossman
2008-04-04 21:01 ` Greg KH
2008-04-05 9:57 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-04-05 15:53 ` Greg KH
2008-04-05 16:55 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-04-05 17:12 ` Greg KH
2008-04-05 18:27 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-04-08 3:41 ` Greg KH
2008-04-13 12:33 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-04-13 17:51 ` Greg KH
2008-04-13 21:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-04-14 8:35 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-04-14 8:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-14 8:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-14 10:58 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-04-13 21:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-15 19:13 ` Greg KH
2008-04-15 21:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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