Re: [RFC 1/1] Driver Core: don't oops with unregistered driver indriver_find_device()

[Hiroshi Doyu]

Thanks Stephen for explaining the background of this patch.

On Fri, 11 May 2012 00:34:40 +0200
Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 05/10/2012 04:28 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:00:48PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> On 05/10/2012 12:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:59:15AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >>>> On 05/10/2012 08:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:35:02AM +0300, Hiroshi DOYU wrote:
> >>>>>> driver_find_device() can be called with an unregistered driver.
...
> > Can someone resend this to me, with the information above in the
> > changelog comment, and I'll be glad to apply it?  Again, I need to know
> > if this is needed for 3.4 or it can wait for 3.5?
> 
> I'll let Hiroshi do that.

Greg, here's the update patch with the above explanation. Please take
this one if the following explanation makes sense.