drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device
The platform_notify call for Arm and PPC architectures needs to be called
before the driver attaches to the device. The problem only presents itself
when hotplugging certain devices while the driver is already loaded.
Signed-off-by: Brian Walsh <brian@walsh.ws>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index bc9f35c..b224bb4 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -424,6 +424,10 @@
if ((error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj)))
goto Error;
+ /* notify platform of device entry */
+ if (platform_notify)
+ platform_notify(dev);
+
dev->uevent_attr.attr.name = "uevent";
dev->uevent_attr.attr.mode = S_IWUSR;
if (dev->driver)
@@ -488,10 +492,6 @@
class_intf->add_dev(dev, class_intf);
up(&dev->class->sem);
}
-
- /* notify platform of device entry */
- if (platform_notify)
- platform_notify(dev);
Done:
kfree(class_name);
put_device(dev);
