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

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

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:33:48PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
>
> 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.

Right, and ISA only has a detachment routine in my working copy.  So
it's not a functional regression that any user will see.  Don't worry,
I'll take care of all of it in a commit later today.

Dave

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