Re: pci: add to global list before sysfs?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 10:35 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:37:14 +1000
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Another solution presented itself, but do you have some pointers on
> where I get more information about the notifiers in case I need them
> in the future?

In device.h:

/*
 * Bus notifiers: Get notified of addition/removal of devices
 * and binding/unbinding of drivers to devices.
 * In the long run, it should be a replacement for the platform
 * notify hooks.
 */
struct notifier_block;

extern int bus_register_notifier(struct bus_type *bus,
				 struct notifier_block *nb);
extern int bus_unregister_notifier(struct bus_type *bus,
				   struct notifier_block *nb);

/* All 4 notifers below get called with the target struct device *
 * as an argument. Note that those functions are likely to be called
 * with the device semaphore held in the core, so be careful.
 */
#define BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE		0x00000001 /* device added */
#define BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE		0x00000002 /* device removed */
#define BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER		0x00000003 /* driver bound to device */
#define BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER	0x00000004 /* driver about to be
						      unbound */
Do you need more info ?

Cheers,
Ben.