On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday, January 14, 2013 11:10:36 PM Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Move out device registering out of pci_bus_add_devices, so we could >> >> put new created pci devices in device tree early. >> >> >> >> new pci_bus_add_devices will do the device_attach work to load pci drivers >> >> instead. >> > >> > I wonder what problem it solves? >> >> we want to put created pci device in the device tree as soon as possible. >> so for_pci_dev will not miss them. >> >> but at that time, we can not load driver for them yet. need to after >> pci_assign_unsigned_resources etc to make sure all pci devices get >> resource allocated at first. >> >> so only move adding to device tree early, and leave loading driver on >> the old places. > > I see, thanks. > > Perhaps you can put that explanation into the changelog? It would help people > to understand the reason for the change in the future. ok -- 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
