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

[Greg KH]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:35:17AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > 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 :)
> 
> Right, and it seems to work. I made driver_attach non-static, declared
> it extern in pci.h, and call it in pci-driver.c while holding the bus
> semaphore and references to the driver and the bus.  This also let me
> delete my probe_each_pci_dev() function and let the driver core
> handle it.

Nice, this looks much better.  I don't have a problem with this patch
anymore.  I'll wait for Pat to ack the driver core changes to see if he
agrees with them before sending this on.

thanks,

greg k-h