From: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks@hp.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:55:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B81C5B.4030304@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050619055924.GA14674@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
>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?
>
>
>
I tested 2.6.12-mm1 yesterday and verified that it allows recursive
calls to platform_device.
Jamey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-21 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-18 14:39 recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks Jamey Hicks
2005-06-19 5:59 ` Greg KH
2005-06-20 13:26 ` Jamey Hicks
2005-06-21 13:55 ` Jamey Hicks [this message]
2005-06-21 7:43 ` Russell King
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2005-06-18 16:06 David Brownell
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