Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262214AbUKQHAk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:00:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262218AbUKQHAk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:00:40 -0500 Received: from smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.83]:48031 "HELO smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262214AbUKQHAe (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:00:34 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] driver core: allow userspace to unbind drivers from devices. Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:00:32 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Patrick Mochel , Adam Belay References: <20041109223729.GB7416@kroah.com> <20041116230828.GB16690@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20041116230828.GB16690@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411170200.32860.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1362 Lines: 32 On Tuesday 16 November 2004 06:08 pm, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:43:21PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:54:40 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:49:43PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > In the meantime, can I please have bind_mode patch applied? I believe > > > > it is useful regardless of which bind/unbind solution will be adopted > > > > and having them will allow me clean up serio bus implementaion quite a > > > > bit. > > > > > > > > Pretty please... > > > > > > Care to resend it? I can't find it in my archives. > > > > > > > Here it is, against 2.6.10-rc2. Apologies for sending it as an attachment > > but this interface will not let me put it inline without mangling. > > No, for now, if you want to do this, do it in the serio code only, let's > clean up the locking first before we do this in the core. > *confused* This patch is completely independent from any locking issues in driver core... It is just 2 flags in device and driver structures that are checked in device_attach and driver_attach. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/