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From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Possible problem with device_move()
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:03:32 +0200
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:37:03 -0400 (EDT),
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Still, I suppose it would be best to add a "move device A to the end of
> the dpm_active list" routine for use in this sort of situation.  This 
> should be easy to do.

Would it make sense if device_move() moved the new parent (and its
parents) after the device in the dpm_active list automatically? Then we
would only have to worry about reordering manually in very special
cases.