Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:54:40 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] driver core: allow userspace to unbind drivers from devices. |
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:49:43PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 07:33 pm, Greg KH wrote: > > All we have to do is rework that rwsem lock. It's been staring at us > > since the beginning of the driver core work, and we knew it would have > > to be fixed eventually. So might as well do it now. > > > ... > > > > So, off to rework this mess... > > > > Do you have any ideas here? For me it seems that the semaphore has a dual > role - protecting bus's lists and ensuring that probe/remove routines are > serialized across bus... > > 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.
thanks,
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