From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752593AbcGRUUM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:20:12 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.220.49]:33080 "EHLO mail-pa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752558AbcGRUUI (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:20:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:20:05 -0700 From: Viresh Kumar To: Jean Delvare , Greg KH Cc: Wolfram Sang , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Johan Hovold , Alex Elder Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-dev: Don't block the adapter from unregistering Message-ID: <20160718202005.GA18283@ubuntu> References: <021486be2f5425ce2379219a7ac163ee14ba2aba.1467772840.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org> <20160706065523.GA1439@tetsubishi> <20160706191218.483fd9fd@endymion> <20160706205540.GJ4127@ubuntu> <20160711142209.4711f229@endymion> <20160711215058.GA7808@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160711215058.GA7808@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11-07-16, 14:50, Greg KH wrote: > Ideally, yes, userspace will have closed that device node. But again, > hardware isn't kind and sometimes decides to be yanked out by users > before they tell the kernel about it. We handle this for almost all > other device subsystems, i2c is one of the last to be fixed up in this > manner. Sorry it's taken us well over a decade to get here :) > > hope that explains things better, @Jean: Ping :) -- viresh