From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760754Ab0J0JRm (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:17:42 -0400 Received: from exprod5og114.obsmtp.com ([64.18.0.28]:34043 "EHLO exprod5og114.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759743Ab0J0JRk (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:17:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC7EDE5.6040009@ge.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:16:21 +0100 From: Martyn Welch Organization: GE Intelligent Platforms User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101006 Thunderbird/3.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Emilio G. Cota" CC: Greg KH , LKML , Juan David Gonzalez Cobas Subject: Re: [PATCH 27/30] staging/vme: rework the bus model References: <1287729412-24356-1-git-send-email-cota@braap.org> <1287729412-24356-28-git-send-email-cota@braap.org> <20101022232707.GA1370@braap.org> <4CC568F6.2070207@ge.com> <20101026010218.GO10869@flamenco.cs.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <20101026010218.GO10869@flamenco.cs.columbia.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Oct 2010 09:17:38.0792 (UTC) FILETIME=[CCEFBE80:01CB75B7] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 26/10/10 02:02, Emilio G. Cota wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:24:38 +0100, Martyn Welch wrote: >> On 23/10/10 00:27, Emilio G. Cota wrote: >>>> * installing drivers even before the bridges they need are present >>>> seems counter-intuitive and wrong. >> >> There are plenty of instances where a driver can be loaded before the >> bus is probed or a device is even present. When the bus become >> available, the probe routine will be run. > > That would be acceptable if and only if no other alternative was available. > > It doesn't make any sense to constrain ourselves to installing > drivers only BEFORE loading bridge drivers. > I have no idea what your doing, but that simply isn't the case. Your right - that really would not make any sense, however I'm happily loading the bridge drivers before any VME device drivers here. Martyn -- Martyn Welch (Principal Software Engineer) | Registered in England and GE Intelligent Platforms | Wales (3828642) at 100 T +44(0)127322748 | Barbirolli Square, Manchester, E martyn.welch@ge.com | M2 3AB VAT:GB 927559189