From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753847Ab2DRX2a (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:28:30 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f52.google.com ([209.85.210.52]:39019 "EHLO mail-pz0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752015Ab2DRX23 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:28:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:28:24 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ian Abbott Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , Gerard Snitselaar , Ian Abbott , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "fmhess@users.sourceforge.net" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: comedi: resolve section mismatch in s626 Message-ID: <20120418232824.GA9419@kroah.com> References: <1332123921-14347-1-git-send-email-dev@snitselaar.org> <20120319030925.GB22956@perelman.Home> <20120319163103.GC3694@kroah.com> <20120319164325.GA31833@perelman.Home> <20120319224649.GA7679@perelman.Home> <20120319232656.GB6386@kroah.com> <4F798416.8040709@mev.co.uk> <20120410182438.GB2052@kroah.com> <4F86D294.3050108@mev.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F86D294.3050108@mev.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:03:16PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote: > On 2012/04/10 07:24 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:48:54AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote: > >>On 2012-03-19 23:26, Greg KH wrote: > >>>On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 03:46:49PM -0700, Gerard Snitselaar wrote: > >>>>I looked at this a bit more. It looks like they lose visibility to the > >>>>pci_dev structure. > >>>> > >>>>*_probe() > >>>> comedi_pci_auto_config() pci_dev > >>>> comedi_auto_config() pci_dev->dev > >>>> comedi_device_attach() ?? > >>>> driv->attach() ??<= iterate through pci devices. > >>>> > >>>>Most of the examples I have looked at so far use for_each_pci_dev() to > >>>>find the device, and s626 shortcuts it a bit by directly making calls > >>>>to pci_get_subsys() with specific ids. They all verify they have the > >>>>right device by checking the bus and slot that are grabbed from the > >>>>pci_dev in comedi_pci_auto_config() and passed down. > >>> > >>>Ugh, surely there's a way to keep the pci dev through the > >>>comedi_device_attach() call, right? > >> > >>comedi_device_attach() is also called for the COMEDI_DEVCONFIG ioctl > >>for "manually" configuring a comedi device, and that has no idea > >>about struct pci_dev, etc. > >> > >>I recently posted a series of patches that allows lower-level comedi > >>drivers to supply separate hooks for auto-configuring PCI devices or > >>USB devices without abusing the old "manual configuration" code > >>paths, see . > >> > >>The old loop that searches the PCI bus is still needed for the > >>"manual configuration" code path. > > > >So, now that I've applied your patches, this patch isn't needed anymore, > >right? Or should it be reworked to use the new interfaces? > > I think it's still needed as that the comedi_driver->attach() hook > is still needed to support manual configuration by the > COMEDI_DEVCONFIG ioctl, and the existing code really shouldn't be > looking in s626_pci_table[] as it's tagged __devinitconst. > > I never saw any mismatched section warnings when I compiled a > linux-next kernel on my system with a full set of comedi drivers, > even with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH configured. I'm not sure > why not, unless it has something to do with me building the kernel > with a separate build directory. Yes, I don't see the mismatch either, so I'm not going to apply this patch, sorry, as I don't see what it is trying to fix at all. greg k-h