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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:20:25 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
CC: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: post 2.6.28 regression: device_initialize() now sleeps, and	may
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Stefan Richter wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>> I originally looked at changing this to be at device_add time, but I
>> think there are some code paths that do device_initialize and then do
>> some operations on the device before calling device_add.
> 
> get_device() and put_device() seem to be about the only things that are
> interesting before device_add().
> 
> Don't know if a final put_device() in this situation

...would require dev->p to be present.
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