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

Greg KH
2004-11-17T18:15:18Z

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:00:32AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 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...

I agree, it's a convient excuse to use to keep any other driver core
changes from happening right now :)

> It is just 2 flags in device and driver structures that are checked in
> device_attach and driver_attach.

But I'm not so sure we want to add this to the driver core yet. We can
discuss this after the locking stuff is finished, ok?

thanks,

greg k-h