From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PARCH] driver core: add driver_find to find a driver by name
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:41:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040628084101.GA21636@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406272126.05220.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:26:03PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a patch that adds driver_find() that allows to search for a driver
> on a bus by it's name. The function is similar to device_find already present
> in the tree. I need it for my serio sysfs patches where user can re-bind
> serio port to an alternate driver by echoing driver's name to serio port's
> driver attribute.
It looks like it's missing some refcounting, no?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-28 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-28 2:26 [PARCH] driver core: add driver_find to find a driver by name Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-28 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-07-14 23:02 ` Greg KH
2004-07-15 12:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-16 4:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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2004-06-28 13:37 Dmitry Torokhov
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