From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init. mca_bus_type even if !MCA_bus
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:56:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040517155607.313c4694.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1084832306.2092.67.camel@mulgrave>
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Fair enough. Let's run with Randy's patch and see what else explodes ;)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-17 22:53 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
2004-05-17 22:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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