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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bind/unbind uevent
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:01:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101208160149.GA10313@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1012081115250.1909@localhost6.localdomain6>

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:16:46AM +0100, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> Ok, understood. The sad part is, that virtually all s390 device drivers
> do this.

Then they are broken, please fix them :)

> I've not checked the archives, but i guess this is the status
> since the 2.6 release. I don't think that changing all those drivers (not
> to mention userspace relying on the structure) is an option here.

Not true, there's really not that many s390 drivers, just fix them to do
the correct thing here, no userspace needs to be changed at all.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-08 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-07 16:18 [RFC] bind/unbind uevent Sebastian Ott
2010-12-07 16:27 ` Greg KH
2010-12-07 17:29   ` Sebastian Ott
2010-12-07 18:33     ` Greg KH
2010-12-07 19:00       ` Kay Sievers
2010-12-08 10:18         ` Sebastian Ott
2010-12-08 16:02           ` Greg KH
2010-12-13 19:27             ` Sebastian Ott
2010-12-13 19:36               ` Greg KH
2010-12-14 18:26                 ` Sebastian Ott
2010-12-14 19:29                   ` Greg KH
2010-12-15 13:21                     ` Cornelia Huck
2010-12-15 16:23                       ` Greg KH
2010-12-15 17:35                         ` Cornelia Huck
2010-12-15 17:51                           ` Kay Sievers
2010-12-15 18:08                             ` Cornelia Huck
2010-12-15 18:18                               ` Greg KH
2010-12-16 10:22                                 ` Cornelia Huck
2010-12-08 10:16       ` Sebastian Ott
2010-12-08 16:01         ` Greg KH [this message]

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