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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION] "bind" a device to a driver doesn't not work anymore
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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