Re: [PATCH 4/3] Allow registering device without taking bus lock

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:46:23AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> ChangeSet@xxxxxx, 2004-06-10 00:10:02-05:00, dtor_core@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   sysfs: provide means for adding and removing devices to a bus without
>          taking bus' semaphore so devices can be added/removed from
>          driver's probe() and remove() methods.

Ick, no, sorry, I will not take this.

For now (2.6), do what others do and add the devices from another
thread, or somthing else.

We will revisit this in 2.7 to make it a sane solution.

Sorry,

greg k-h
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