public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "John Lenz" <lenz@cs.wisc.edu>
To: "Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Driver core patches for 2.6.13-rc1
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:22:49 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34128.127.0.0.1.1120152169.squirrel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050630060206.GA23321@kroah.com>

On Thu, June 30, 2005 1:02 am, Greg KH said:
> Here are some small patches for the driver core.  They fix a bug that
> has caused some people to see deadlocks when some drivers are unloaded
> (like ieee1394), and add the ability to bind and unbind drivers from
> devices from userspace (something that people have been asking for for a
> long time.)

As long as there are a whole bunch of class API changes going on, I would
request that the class_interface add and remove functions get passed the
class_interface pointer as well as the class_device.  This way, the same
function can be used on multiple class_interfaces.

John


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-30 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-30  6:02 [GIT PATCH] Driver core patches for 2.6.13-rc1 Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:04 ` [PATCH] driver core: add bus_find_device & driver_find_device functions Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:04   ` [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:04     ` [PATCH] driver core: change bus_rescan_devices to return void Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:04       ` [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to bind drivers to devices from userspace Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:04         ` [PATCH] Driver core: Use klist_del() instead of klist_remove() Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:25     ` [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-30  6:29       ` Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:19 ` [GIT PATCH] Driver core patches for 2.6.13-rc1 Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-30  6:27   ` Greg KH
2005-06-30 17:22 ` John Lenz [this message]
2005-06-30 19:45   ` Greg KH
2005-06-30 21:18     ` [PATCH] add class_interface pointer to add and remove functions John Lenz
2005-07-03 20:59       ` Greg KH
2005-07-06  2:35         ` John Lenz
2005-07-06  7:17           ` Greg KH

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=34128.127.0.0.1.1120152169.squirrel@localhost \
    --to=lenz@cs.wisc.edu \
    --cc=gregkh@suse.de \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox