Re: PATCH: Support PCI device sorting (Re: PCI device order problem)

From: H. J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 15:42:48 EST


On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:42:49AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 05:25:26PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:05:13PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >
> > > > s/__devinit/__init/ and the implementation looks ok to me
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ...except if your patch can be called in hotplug paths...
> >
> > There are plenty of __devini in arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c. I will leave
> > mine alone.
>
> That is because those functions can be called in PCI hotplug paths,
> since yours is only called during init, it should be marked as such.
>

Are you telling me that pcibios_sort will be called by PCI hotplug?

H.J.
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