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

2006-12-08 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 3:56 pm, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 06, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please explain in more details how hotplugging would be broken, possibly > > > with examples. > > > > First, for reference, I refer to hotplugging using the trivial ASH scripts

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

2006-12-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 06, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please explain in more details how hotplugging would be broken, possibly > > with examples. > First, for reference, I refer to hotplugging using the trivial ASH scripts > from [1], updated by removing no-longer-needed special cases for platf

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

2006-12-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:03:08PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 2:01 am, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Dec 05, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The pushback on $SUBJECT patch. Which amounts to wanting to break hotplug > > > for several busses, unless

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

2006-12-05 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 2:01 am, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 05, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The pushback on $SUBJECT patch. Which amounts to wanting to break hotplug > > for several busses, unless someone (NOT the folk promoting the breakage!) > > Please explain in more

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

2006-12-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 05, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The pushback on $SUBJECT patch. Which amounts to wanting to break hotplug > for several busses, unless someone (NOT the folk promoting the breakage!) Please explain in more details how hotplugging would be broken, possibly with examples. > T

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

2006-12-04 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 30 November 2006 11:04 pm, Greg KH wrote: > 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 > > > >

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

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

2006-11-29 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:50:58PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Monday 27 November 2006 11:03 am, Greg KH wrote: > > > David, any chance you can fix this up, as people are seeing this bug > > today. > > Here's my fix. Unlike the fix Kay suggested, it causes at worst only > a minor loss of f

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

2006-11-29 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 27 November 2006 11:03 am, Greg KH wrote: > David, any chance you can fix this up, as people are seeing this bug > today. Here's my fix. Unlike the fix Kay suggested, it causes at worst only a minor loss of functionality, so that tradeoff seems fair for a late merge. I audited all the