On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Please don't add some silly bus scanning. We have perfectly good
> mechanisms for registering drivers, and if the AGP bridge shows up as a
> PCI device, it should just use the "register_pci_driver()" thing, and then
> the PCI layer will do the right thing.
Note that this is even more important since the AGP driver may not show up
as a PCI device AT ALL. There's no way that the AGP layer can sanely scan
some bus to find anything, because the only thing that knows where the AGP
device may be and how to detect it is the low-level AGP driver itself.
Linus
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