Re: [GIT PATCH] Driver core patches for 2.6.13-rc1

From: John Lenz
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 12:24:19 EST


On Thu, June 30, 2005 1:02 am, Greg KH said:
> Here are some small patches for the driver core. They fix a bug that
> has caused some people to see deadlocks when some drivers are unloaded
> (like ieee1394), and add the ability to bind and unbind drivers from
> devices from userspace (something that people have been asking for for a
> long time.)

As long as there are a whole bunch of class API changes going on, I would
request that the class_interface add and remove functions get passed the
class_interface pointer as well as the class_device. This way, the same
function can be used on multiple class_interfaces.

John

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