From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932902AbZJLTMW (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:12:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757532AbZJLTMW (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:12:22 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:56661 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757496AbZJLTMV (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:12:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:54:17 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9ric?= Piel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] "bind" a device to a driver doesn't not work anymore Message-ID: <20091012185417.GA30342@suse.de> References: <4AD120F2.3020606@tremplin-utc.net> <20091011030029.GA6526@suse.de> <200910112135.29384.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> <4AD31709.4000103@tremplin-utc.net> <20091012154846.GB7996@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20091012173551.GC10557@suse.de> <20091012183313.GC8345@core.coreip.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091012183313.GC8345@core.coreip.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:33:13AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:35:51AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 08:48:46AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > So at least, unbind should fail as well as bind. > > > > > > > > > > That would be Greg's domain s it is driver core decision whether to > > > allow unbinding platform devices registered with > > > platform_driver_probe(). > > > > No, I do not see why that should not be allowed. > > > > Because once you did unbind the device you are stuck (unless the driver > is compiled as a module, but then you could just unload the module > instead of unbinding). Disallowing unbind would allow discarding not > only __devinit but __devexit sections when driver is built in which > would make ebedded people happy[^Hier]. Yeah, good point. Does anyone do bind/unbind with platform devices today? If not, a patch changing this would be welcome. thanks, greg k-h