On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:24:47 +0000, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I still say this is absolutely crazy. If a bus does not get registered, > what happens to all the devices and drivers which are registered against > that bus? This is a generic problem. Does any driver check if the bus it is registering against is really present? Or should the driver core check whether a bus is registered when someone tries to register a device/driver? > I suspect that if this bus_register doesn't work, you'll see an oops > sooner or later. So it might as well be a BUG_ON here. What we need to do here is to make sure we get to know that something went really wrong here. If a BUG_ON is considered preferrable to oopses on platform device registering, I can roll a patch. -- Cornelia Huck Linux for zSeries Developer Tel.: +49-7031-16-4837, Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
