From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758594AbXHTCCz (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:02:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754537AbXHTCCK (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:02:10 -0400 Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.101]:45667 "HELO smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752423AbXHTCCI (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:02:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=NZEycTt3tIyHmnoSyPnigvuUwXDqbQvPVdTKIn1fxR8McJXvRtZ0OOxnwemPKiY8YpSw0KWppXg/onQdF2s+NiJy6Z/Uo0vjtAn8mcCugXoM9LJ1E/yB1DoW049T75qDErRrfC0/V5G9zLFU3RiZIizbJUQshHgX05OS+6IvDcU= ; X-YMail-OSG: _NFrxbYVM1mIr_lIHkQPFfLdUem_fF6fcpB4ZNd.KG05DgBT.oNZPXvjWqhFw1DI9Z9ad2Oo6o4L9XbdMSO6rhsSlJJi0z.DApByAcQ8G1_7ZzOcKNseEGj.nzGv0ks1MyvhvfI8OcSKtvk- From: David Brownell To: Atsushi Nemoto Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:02:04 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Kay Sievers , jengelh@computergmbh.de, a.zummo@towertech.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, greg@kroah.com References: <200708170902.01260.david-b@pacbell.net> <1187559950.4419.79.camel@lov.localdomain> <200708191848.21410.david-b@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <200708191848.21410.david-b@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708191902.04966.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 19 August 2007, David Brownell wrote: > On Sunday 19 August 2007, Kay Sievers wrote: > > No, I object to the concept of "platform" to disable all uevents by > > default, > > Which it certainly doesn't do. > > Since the $SUBJECT patch doesn't affect a platform driver in any case, > all those comments are well off-topic for $SUBJECT. Sorry, my bad -- I was looking at the wrong files. (Kay -- apply cluebat to *my* head, on this point.) This is indeed a platform driver. And v2 of this patch doesn't resolve its "won't hotplug" problem. The simplest way to resolve that would be switching to the more widely used platform_device_register().