Re: [PATCH] init. mca_bus_type even if !MCA_bus

[James Bottomley]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Why is it appropriate to register the MCA bus type when there is no
> MCA bus present?

The legacy bus functions all have a bus_for_each_dev in them.  This
can't execute correctly unless the bus is registered.  So either a check
for MCA_bus has to be added to each of them, or we register the bus but
attach no devices, so the loop exits without doing anything.

James


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