From: Brian Walsh Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:43:19 +0000 (-0700) Subject: drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~1078^2~7 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=370226449ced358e52d198081120826ef52c166b;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device The platform_notify call for Arm and PPC architectures needs to be called before the driver attaches to the device. The problem only presents itself when hotplugging certain devices while the driver is already loaded. Signed-off-by: Brian Walsh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index bc9f35c8169..b224bb43ff6 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -424,6 +424,10 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) if ((error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj))) goto Error; + /* notify platform of device entry */ + if (platform_notify) + platform_notify(dev); + dev->uevent_attr.attr.name = "uevent"; dev->uevent_attr.attr.mode = S_IWUSR; if (dev->driver) @@ -488,10 +492,6 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) class_intf->add_dev(dev, class_intf); up(&dev->class->sem); } - - /* notify platform of device entry */ - if (platform_notify) - platform_notify(dev); Done: kfree(class_name); put_device(dev);