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


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