Re: [PATCH v8 06/22] PCI: split registration of PCI bus devices intotwo stages

[Yinghai Lu]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/13/2013 06:34 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Friday, January 11, 2013 02:40:33 PM Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> When handling BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE event for a PCI bridge device,
>>> the notification handler can't hold reference count to the new PCI bus
>>> because the device object for the new bus (pci_dev->subordinate->dev)
>>> hasn't been initialized yet.
>>
>> It doesn't look like BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE is used by the PCI bus type
>> in the mainline.
>>
>> Is it in linux-next?
>>
>> If not, then I don't see why we need this patch.
> Hi Rafael,
>         Originally it's a preparation patch for pci_slot/acpiphp/pci_bind
> related fixups. With recent work from you to remove bind/unbind from struct
> acpi_bus_type, we have no dependency on this patch anymore.

ok, will drop this one.

Yinghai
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