Re: [RFC] [PATCH] driver core: allow userspace to unbind drivers from devices.

Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-17T07:00:40Z

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 06:08 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:43:21PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:54:40 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:49:43PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > In the meantime, can I please have bind_mode patch applied? I believe
> > > > it is useful regardless of which bind/unbind solution will be adopted
> > > > and having them will allow me clean up serio bus implementaion quite a
> > > > bit.
> > > >
> > > > Pretty please...
> > >
> > > Care to resend it? I can't find it in my archives.
> > >
> >
> > Here it is, against 2.6.10-rc2. Apologies for sending it as an attachment
> > but this interface will not let me put it inline without mangling.
>
> No, for now, if you want to do this, do it in the serio code only, let's
> clean up the locking first before we do this in the core.
>

*confused* This patch is completely independent from any locking issues in
driver core... It is just 2 flags in device and driver structures that are
checked in device_attach and driver_attach.

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Dmitry