Re: recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks

[Jamey Hicks]

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

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