Re: [Bulk] Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers

2006-12-06 Thread David Brownell
> > First, for reference, I refer to hotplugging using the trivial ASH scripts > > from [1], updated by removing no-longer-needed special cases for > > platform_bus > > (that original logic didn't work sometimes) and pcmcia. ... > > Ah, so for the platform devices, doing a > modprobe /sys/d

Re: [Bulk] Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers

2006-11-30 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:27:31PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 3:02 pm, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > Here's my fix. ... > > > ... I audited all the drivers using the relevant APIs, and I can't > > > see many (if any!) folk hitting problems from this. > > > > But t

Re: [Bulk] Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers

2006-11-29 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 3:02 pm, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Here's my fix. ... > > ... I audited all the drivers using the relevant APIs, and I can't > > see many (if any!) folk hitting problems from this. > > But this still can cause the problem that your 'modalias' file in sysfs > contains