Re: [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic PCI Device IDs

[Greg KH]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 09:04:35PM -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Unfortunatly, looking at the driver core real quickly, I don't see a
> > simple way to kick the probe cycle off again for all pci devices, but
> > I'm probably just missing something somewhere...
> 
> I think drivers/base/bus.c: driver_attach() is what we want, which will
> walk the list of the bus's devices and run bus_match() which is
> pci_bus_match() which will scan for us.  Just need to un-static
> driver_attach() I expect.  Pat, does this sound right?

You can't just call driver_attach(), as the bus semaphore needs to be
locked before doing so.  In short, you almost need to duplicate
bus_add_driver(), but not quite :)

Good luck,

greg k-h