Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:33:13 -0700 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [REGRESSION] "bind" a device to a driver doesn't not work anymore |
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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].
-- Dmitry
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