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

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 19:26:40 EST


H. J. Lu wrote:

>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:
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>>>On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:05:13PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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>>>>Jeff Garzik wrote:
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>>>>>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?
>
>

no, he's saying __init is correct, as Alan and I said.

    Jeff

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