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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Implement class_device_update_dev() function
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:57:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060706235745.GA13548@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152226792.29643.8.camel@localhost>

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 12:59:52AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> for the Bluetooth subsystem integration into the driver model it is
> required that we can update the device of a class device at any time.

You can?  Ick.

That messes with my "get rid of struct class_device" plans a bit...

> For the RFCOMM TTY device for example we create the TTY device and only
> when it got opened we create the Bluetooth connection. Once this new
> connection has been created we have a device to attach to the class
> device of the TTY.
> 
> I came up with the attached patch and it worked fine with the Bluetooth
> RFCOMM layer.

But userspace should also find out about this change, and this patch
prevents that from happening.  What about just tearing down the class
device and creating a new one?  That way userspace knows about the new
linkage properly, and any device naming and permission issues can be
handled anew?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-07  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-06 22:59 Implement class_device_update_dev() function Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-06 23:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-07-07  7:42   ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-08  0:26     ` Kay Sievers
2006-07-08  9:27       ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-08 13:00         ` Kay Sievers
2006-07-08 13:28           ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-08 17:27             ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-11 23:18     ` Greg KH

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