Re: [PATCH 2.6.26] PCI: refuse to re-add a device to a bus upon pci_scan_child_bus()

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:18:19PM +0300, Eran Liberty wrote:
> Dear Penguins,
> 
> As a follow up on my own post ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/18/195 ), I
> have  solved a small bug/misbehavior within the pci_scan_single_device().

To quote your original post here for ease of replying:

> 1. Calling pci_remove_bus_device() on some of the devices on a bus will 
> remove them. (ok)
> 2. Calling pci_scan_child_bus() on that bus will scan the bus for 
> devices and add them all. even the ones already in the bus device list, 
> which will now be duplicated in the bus device list! (no so ok)

I think this is your real problem, that you're rescanning the entire
bus.  I don't think that's the route we'd recommend taking.

Why don't you call pci_scan_slot() instead?  You won't get the benefit of
pcibios_fixup_bus(), but I'm not convinced that's safe to call on a bus
that's already been scanned.

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