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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
	heiko@sntech.de, briannorris@chromium.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	dianders@chromium.org, tfiga@chromium.org, broonie@kernel.org,
	seanpaul@chromium.org, thierry.reding@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make sure device detached from driver before deleting it
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 08:19:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171018061952.GA18857@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171018054926.4756-1-jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com>

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 01:49:26PM +0800, Jeffy Chen wrote:
> There are cases we call device_del() without detaching it from the
> driver(e.g. spi core del children devices).

Why would you do that?  Shouldn't that be fixed instead of this odd
work-around for a broken bus?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-18  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-18  5:49 [PATCH] driver core: Make sure device detached from driver before deleting it Jeffy Chen
2017-10-18  6:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-10-18  7:06   ` jeffy
2017-10-18  7:33     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-10-18  8:32       ` jeffy
2017-10-18  9:47   ` Mark Brown
2017-10-18 10:01     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-10-18 10:04 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-10-18 11:11   ` jeffy
2017-10-18 11:32     ` jeffy
2017-10-18 11:32       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-10-18 11:33       ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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