Re: [RFC] [PATCH] driver core: allow userspace to unbind drivers from devices.

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:49:43PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 November 2004 07:33 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> > All we have to do is rework that rwsem lock.  It's been staring at us
> > since the beginning of the driver core work, and we knew it would have
> > to be fixed eventually.  So might as well do it now.
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > So, off to rework this mess...
> > 
> 
> Do you have any ideas here? For me it seems that the semaphore has a dual
> role - protecting bus's lists and ensuring that probe/remove routines are
> serialized across bus...
> 
> In the meantime, can I please have bind_mode patch applied? I believe
> it is useful regardless of which bind/unbind solution will be adopted
> and having them will allow me clean up serio bus implementaion quite a
> bit.
> 
> Pretty please...

Care to resend it?  I can't find it in my archives.

thanks,

greg k-h
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