Re: recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks

Jamey Hicks
2005-06-20T13:26:58Z

Greg KH wrote:

>On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:39:34AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote:
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>>We could restructure the toplevel driver so that it does not call
>>platform_device inside its probe function. An alternative would be to
>>add a pointer to a vector of subdevices to platform_device and have it
>>register the subdevices after it has probed the toplevel device. Do you
>>have any recommendations?
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>Use the -mm kernel, this should be allowed in that release, due to a
>rework of the driver core logic in this area. Can you test this out and
>verify this?
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Sounds good. I will test it out.

Jamey