Re: Behaviour of device_register

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:25:48PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> The observed behaviour for me is that it appears to be blocking the
> vblank interrupt on my box (or more accurately stopping the workqueue
> that the interrupt handler calls from running). And without the vblank
> my bus won't process dma and so therefore the attempt to register the
> device in question fails.
> 
> But I can see no reason from a glance over the code why that (vblanks
> being blocked) would be the case - have I missed something and the
> vblanks will be blocked, or should I be looking elsewhere for the root
> cause of this problem?

device_register(), on it's own, does not touch any hardware, nor prevent
anything else in the kernel from happening.

So I think you need to look elsewhere, like into the bus that is doing
the device_register() call :)

good luck,

greg k-h