Re: [Resend][PATCH] ACPI / glue: Drop .find_bridge() callback fromstruct acpi_bus_type

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Wed Feb 27 2013 - 18:31:17 EST


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:06:52PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> After PCI has stopped using the .find_bridge() callback in
>> struct acpi_bus_type, the only remaining users of it are SATA and
>> USB. However, SATA only pretends to be a user, because it points
>> that callback to a stub always returning -ENODEV, and USB uses it
>> incorrectly, because as a result of the way it is used by USB every
>> device in the system that doesn't have a bus type or parent is
>> passed to usb_acpi_find_device() for inspection.
>>
>> What USB actually needs, though, is to call usb_acpi_find_device()
>> for USB ports that don't have a bus type defined, but have
>> usb_port_device_type as their device type.
>
> Ick, that's not good. Can you have the original creator of that code
> (someone else from Intel, I can't remember at the moment), fix that up
> properly and send me patches?

[Add To: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
>> Please let me know if there are any objections.

I still prefer to ask USB to add bus_type instead at first.

Thanks

Yinghai
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