From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] Allow registering device without taking bus lock
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:14:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040610111415.C20006@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406100146.25471.dtor_core@ameritech.net>; from dtor_core@ameritech.net on Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:46:23AM -0500
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:46:23AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> ChangeSet@1.1769, 2004-06-10 00:10:02-05:00, dtor_core@ameritech.net
> sysfs: provide means for adding and removing devices to a bus without
> taking bus' semaphore so devices can be added/removed from
> driver's probe() and remove() methods.
Eww. Why can't you do the same as PCMCIA and register/remove in a
separate thread?
Really though, lets not introduce this hacky solution, but come up
with a way to do it cleanly so PCMCIA doesn't have this problem
either.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-10 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-09 7:21 [PATCH 0/3] Couple of sysfs patches Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-09 7:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] whitespace fixes in drivers/base Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-09 7:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] Suppress platform device suffixes Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-09 7:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add platform_device_simple_release Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-09 22:13 ` [PATCH 0/3] Couple of sysfs patches Greg KH
[not found] ` <200406091732.28684.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
2004-06-09 22:45 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <200406091754.23303.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
2004-06-09 23:19 ` Greg KH
2004-06-10 6:40 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-10 6:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] Suppress platform device suffixes - take 2 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-10 6:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add platform_device_register_simple Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-10 6:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] Whitespace fixes Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-10 6:46 ` [PATCH 4/3] Allow registering device without taking bus lock Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-10 10:14 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-06-10 16:02 ` Greg KH
2004-06-10 16:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] Whitespace fixes Greg KH
2004-06-10 10:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add platform_device_register_simple Russell King
[not found] ` <200406100755.59943.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
2004-06-10 13:56 ` Russell King
2004-06-10 16:04 ` Greg KH
2004-06-10 16:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] Suppress platform device suffixes - take 2 Greg KH
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