Re: [PATCH] Don't use a klist for drivers' set-of-devices

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Hmm, so what do I do in the following scenario - I have a serio port
> (AUX) that has a synaptics touchpad bound to it which is driven by
> psmouse driver. psmouse driver registers a child port (synaptics
> pass-through) during probe call. The child port is also driven by
> psmouse module - but it looks like it will deadlock when binding.
> 
> Am I missing something here?

I hate to say this, but you are right.  Can you suggest a way around this 
problem?  Perhaps arranging things so that the devlist_mutex is held only 
during the actual __device_bind_driver call and not during probe...  But 
there are so many tricky interactions and possible races that this 
requires a lot of thought.  I'll get back to you.

Alan Stern

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