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

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 17.08.2009 um 21:30 schrieb David Young:

> 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.

GPIO did not even work until I fixed it.

> NAME
>     gscpcib -- National Semiconductor Geode SC1100 PCI-ISA bridge
>
> SYNOPSIS
>     gscpcib* at pci?
>     isa* at gscpcib?
>     gpio* at gscpcib?
>
> Dave
>
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