Re: recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks

Greg KH
2005-06-19T05:59:43Z

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:39:34AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote:
>
> 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?

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?

thanks,

greg k-h