On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hmm, so what do I do in the following scenario - I have a serio port > (AUX) that has a synaptics touchpad bound to it which is driven by > psmouse driver. psmouse driver registers a child port (synaptics > pass-through) during probe call. The child port is also driven by > psmouse module - but it looks like it will deadlock when binding. > > Am I missing something here?
I hate to say this, but you are right. Can you suggest a way around this problem? Perhaps arranging things so that the devlist_mutex is held only during the actual __device_bind_driver call and not during probe... But there are so many tricky interactions and possible races that this requires a lot of thought. I'll get back to you. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
