Re: recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks

[Russell King]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:39:34AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote:
> We've started working on replacing uses of soc_device in handhelds 
> drivers by platform_device.   One of the things we ran into is that the 
> platform_device driver for an ASIC was calling soc_device_register 
> inside its probe function.  If this is converted to 
> platform_device_register, then the process deadlocks because 
> bus_add_device locks platform_bus_type.

This should now be resolved as a result of Greg's recent patch driver
model patch set, as appeared on lkml last night.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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