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From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: check bus->match without holding device lock
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:13:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d82e647a0903250313ka2d270ag78335e7c7f525f22@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903250817090.5590@axis700.grange>

>> > Now, without .match() no probing is done. Is this an intended change and
>> > soc-camera has to be fixed or is this a bug?
>>
>> It is not a driver-core bug, and soc-camera should be fixed.
>
> So, you're saying this used to be a bug and it has been fixed by this
> patch? Then why isn't this mentioned in the commit message? The commit
> text seems to suggest, that this patch shouldn't introduce any change in
> behaviour, but it does. So, before .match == NULL lead to .probe() being
> called, and now it doesn't anymore?

Where is soc-camera  driver in kernel tree?  Which bus  is soc-camera
device (driver) attached to ?
Why doesn't soc-camera  driver  have a match method?

Thanks!


-- 
Lei Ming

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-20 13:34 tom.leiming
2009-01-20 14:21 ` Cornelia Huck
2009-01-21 15:00   ` Ming Lei
2009-03-24 23:46 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-03-25  1:15   ` Ming Lei
2009-03-25  7:29     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-03-25 10:13       ` Ming Lei [this message]
2009-03-25 10:23         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-03-25 15:15           ` Ming Lei
2009-03-26 15:46             ` Ming Lei

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