Re: Solved! (was: why is this needed?)

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:25:33PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
>
> Am 17.08.2009 um 20:57 schrieb David Young:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:04:08PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
>>> While here, I removed the unneeded and empty gscpcib_childdetach
>>> function.
>>
>> The gscpcib_childdetach function, empty though it is, is needed so  
>> that
>> children can be detached.  Please put that back. :-)
>
> hmm.  Other gpio drivers seem not to have it, and work nonetheless (eg. 
> gpiosim(4)).  why is it needed in this particular case?

It is needed so that we can detach the children of gscpcib(4).
According to the manual page, those children are an ISA bus and a GPIO
bus.

NAME
     gscpcib -- National Semiconductor Geode SC1100 PCI-ISA bridge

SYNOPSIS
     gscpcib* at pci?
     isa* at gscpcib?
     gpio* at gscpcib?

Dave

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