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    staging: vme: make match() driver specific to improve non-VME64x support · 5d6abf37
    Manohar Vanga authored
    For jumper based boards (non VME64x), there is no mechanism
    for detecting the card that is plugged into a specific slot. This
    leads to issues in non-autodiscovery crates/cards when a card is
    plugged into a slot that is "claimed" by a different driver. In
    reality, there is no problem, but the driver rejects such a
    configuration due to its dependence on the concept of slots.
    
    This patch makes the concept of slots less critical and pushes the
    driver match() to individual drivers (similar to what happens in the
    ISA bus in driver/base/isa.c). This allows drivers to register the
    number of devices that they expect without any restrictions. Devices
    in this new model are now formatted as $driver_name-$bus_id.$device_id
    (as compared to the earlier vme-$bus_id.$slot_number).
    
    This model also makes the device model more logical as devices
    are only registered when they actually exist whereas earlier,
    a set of devices were being created automatically regardless of
    them actually being there.
    
    Another change introduced in this patch is that devices are now created
    within the VME driver structure rather than in the VME bridge structure.
    This way, things don't go haywire if the bridge driver is removed while
    a driver is using it.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarManohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@cern.ch>
    Cc: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarEmilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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