Re: [REGRESSION] "bind" a device to a driver doesn't not work anymore

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 01:02:38AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:51:27AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 08:17:41PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:54:17AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:33:13AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:35:51AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 08:48:46AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > > > > > So at least, unbind should fail as well as bind.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > That would be Greg's domain s it is driver core decision whether to
> > > > > > > allow unbinding platform devices registered with
> > > > > > > platform_driver_probe().
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > No, I do not see why that should not be allowed.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Because once you did unbind the device you are stuck (unless the driver
> > > > > is compiled as a module, but then you could just unload the module
> > > > > instead of unbinding). Disallowing unbind would allow discarding not
> > > > > only __devinit but __devexit sections when driver is built in which
> > > > > would make ebedded people happy[^Hier].
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, good point.
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone do bind/unbind with platform devices today?
> > > > 
> > > > If not, a patch changing this would be welcome.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > How about this one?
> > > 
> > 
> > *ping* We need to resolve this, otherwise everyone who likes to rebind
> > i8042 in couse of STR/STD will be in trouble.
> 
> Sorry, am in Tokyo right now.
> 
> I like this patch, and will queue it up, but it's too late for .32, it
> will have to wait for .33.
> 

Greg,

I hope you will reconsider. The patch is extremely small but without it
I am afraid many people whose distributions blindly rebind i8042 on
suspend/resume will lose their keyboards and mice now that i8042 uses
platform_driver_probe()...

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry