Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git 1/2] fix hotplug for legacy platformdrivers

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 06:48:10 EST


On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:55:38 -0700,
David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This fix uses the newish per-device flag controlling issuance of "add" events.
> (A previous version of this patch used a per-device "driver can hotplug" flag,
> which only scrubbed $MODALIAS from the environment rather than suppressing the
> entire hotplug event.) It also shrinks that flag to one bit, saving a word in
> "struct device".

Would this still work on top of
driver-core-suppress-uevents-via-filter.patch (in -mm), which
suppresses all uevents (not just the add event)? I'd think yes, but I'm
not that familiar with platform devices :)
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