On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday, December 09, 2012 09:34:42 PM Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >> Can we expand the BUS_ADD_* concept to other devices instead of just >> acpi_device? >> >> aka we should let struct device has this add_type field. > > Having done that in ACPI to cover our use case here, we can try to move it > into struct device if there are use cases beyond ACPI that can't be covered > by using deferred driver probing. pci device for hotplug have same problem. need to delay driver attach for them too. also BUS_ADD_MATCH and BUS_ADD_START are duplicated. old add are separated to adding all devices to tree and then matching work to load the drivers. so _START is not needed anymore, only user.start in pci_root driver should be removed. code in .start could be moved .add without problem. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
