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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:59:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050619055924.GA14674@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42B43226.20703@hp.com>

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:39:34AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote:
> 
> We could restructure the toplevel driver so that it does not call 
> platform_device inside its probe function.  An alternative would be to 
> add a pointer to a vector of subdevices to platform_device and have it 
> register the subdevices after it has probed the toplevel device.  Do you 
> have any recommendations?

Use the -mm kernel, this should be allowed in that release, due to a
rework of the driver core logic in this area.  Can you test this out and
verify this?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-19  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-18 14:39 recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks Jamey Hicks
2005-06-19  5:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-06-20 13:26   ` Jamey Hicks
2005-06-21 13:55   ` Jamey Hicks
2005-06-21  7:43 ` Russell King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-18 16:06 David Brownell

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