From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262734AbVF3RW4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:22:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262783AbVF3RW4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:22:56 -0400 Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:44443 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262734AbVF3RWy (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:22:54 -0400 Message-ID: <34128.127.0.0.1.1120152169.squirrel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050630060206.GA23321@kroah.com> References: <20050630060206.GA23321@kroah.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:22:49 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Driver core patches for 2.6.13-rc1 From: "John Lenz" To: "Greg KH" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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