Re: [PATCH 4/3] Allow registering device without taking bus lock

[Russell King]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:46:23AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> ChangeSet@xxxxxx, 2004-06-10 00:10:02-05:00, dtor_core@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   sysfs: provide means for adding and removing devices to a bus without
>          taking bus' semaphore so devices can be added/removed from
>          driver's probe() and remove() methods.

Eww.  Why can't you do the same as PCMCIA and register/remove in a
separate thread?

Really though, lets not introduce this hacky solution, but come up
with a way to do it cleanly so PCMCIA doesn't have this problem
either.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core
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