Re: pci: add to global list before sysfs?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:13 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Haven't had a chance to look at your changes yet, but I have memories of
> > being pretty happy with having that 2 step mechanism in PCI where the
> > driver core would only see the devices after fixup.
> 
> No, that is left alone, I just dropped the duplicate device list that
> was linked within the PCI devices themselves.  The only user of it was
> the "reorder the PCI devices" code for some Dell machines, and that was
> just doing it to be safe (it was also reordering the driver core list of
> PCI devices, which is what really mattered.)
> 
> So everything should still be fine.

Ok, thanks.

Cheers,
Ben.


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