Re: [char-misc-next 05/11] mei: bus: Call bus routines from the corecode

From: Samuel Ortiz
Date: Thu Feb 07 2013 - 17:57:47 EST


Hi Arnd,

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:37:30PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 07 February 2013, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > @@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ static int mei_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> > mei_pdev = pdev;
> > pci_set_drvdata(pdev, dev);
> >
> > + err = mei_bus_init(mei_pdev);
> > + if (err)
> > + goto deregister_mei;
> >
> > schedule_delayed_work(&dev->timer_work, HZ);
> >
>
> This is fairly unusual, and will break if you ever have multiple mei devices
> in one system, because you end up registering the bus type for each
> device. I think it would be more logical to register/unregister
> the bus_type from the module_init/exit functions of the module
> that contains the bus_type object.
That makes sense, I'll fix that.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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