Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:59:24 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: recursive call to platform_device_register deadlocks |
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:39:34AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote: > > We could restructure the toplevel driver so that it does not call > platform_device inside its probe function. An alternative would be to > add a pointer to a vector of subdevices to platform_device and have it > register the subdevices after it has probed the toplevel device. Do you > have any recommendations?
Use the -mm kernel, this should be allowed in that release, due to a rework of the driver core logic in this area. Can you test this out and verify this?
thanks,
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