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

Greg KH
2004-11-16T23:15:00Z

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.

thanks,

greg k-h