Re: [GIT PATCH] Driver core patches for 2.6.13-rc1

Greg KH
2005-06-30T20:15:24Z

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:22:49PM -0500, John Lenz wrote:
> 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.

I'm sorry, I seem to have missed the patch in this email that implements
this feature...

:)

thanks,

greg k-h