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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

  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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