From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:43:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050621084301.B30570@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42B43226.20703@hp.com>; from jamey.hicks@hp.com on Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:39:34AM -0400
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:39:34AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote:
> We've started working on replacing uses of soc_device in handhelds
> drivers by platform_device. One of the things we ran into is that the
> platform_device driver for an ASIC was calling soc_device_register
> inside its probe function. If this is converted to
> platform_device_register, then the process deadlocks because
> bus_add_device locks platform_bus_type.
This should now be resolved as a result of Greg's recent patch driver
model patch set, as appeared on lkml last night.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-21 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-18 14:39 recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks Jamey Hicks
2005-06-19 5:59 ` Greg KH
2005-06-20 13:26 ` Jamey Hicks
2005-06-21 13:55 ` Jamey Hicks
2005-06-21 7:43 ` Russell King [this message]
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2005-06-18 16:06 David Brownell
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