From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@home-tj.org>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] driver core: allow userspace to unbind drivers from devices.
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:54:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041116055440.GH29328@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411092249.44561.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:49:43PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 November 2004 07:33 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> > All we have to do is rework that rwsem lock. It's been staring at us
> > since the beginning of the driver core work, and we knew it would have
> > to be fixed eventually. So might as well do it now.
> >
> ...
> >
> > So, off to rework this mess...
> >
>
> Do you have any ideas here? For me it seems that the semaphore has a dual
> role - protecting bus's lists and ensuring that probe/remove routines are
> serialized across bus...
>
> 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.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-16 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-09 22:37 [RFC] [PATCH] driver core: allow userspace to unbind drivers from devices Greg KH
2004-11-09 23:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-10 0:33 ` Greg KH
2004-11-10 3:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-16 5:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-11-16 20:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-16 23:08 ` Greg KH
2004-11-17 7:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-17 17:55 ` Greg KH
2004-11-16 6:13 ` Adam Belay
2004-11-16 6:37 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-16 7:04 ` Adam Belay
2004-11-16 20:22 ` Greg KH
2004-11-16 21:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-16 20:17 ` Greg KH
2004-11-17 7:07 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-17 17:53 ` Greg KH
2004-11-17 19:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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