Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:01:49 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bind/unbind uevent
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On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:16:46AM +0100, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> Ok, understood. The sad part is, that virtually all s390 device drivers
> do this.

Then they are broken, please fix them :)

> I've not checked the archives, but i guess this is the status
> since the 2.6 release. I don't think that changing all those drivers (not
> to mention userspace relying on the structure) is an option here.

Not true, there's really not that many s390 drivers, just fix them to do
the correct thing here, no userspace needs to be changed at all.

thanks,

greg k-h
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