Re: [REGRESSION] "bind" a device to a driver doesn't not workanymore

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Oct 10 2009 - 23:01:56 EST


On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 02:04:02AM +0200, ?ric Piel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After a suspend, I used to do this (to get the PS2 keyboard working again),
> and it used to work fine:
> echo -n "i8042" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/unbind ; sleep 1 ; echo
> -n "i8042" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/bind
>
> Unfortunately since 2.6.32-rc1, the unbind works fine, but the bind returns
> a "no such device" error now (and the binding is not done). After that,
> additional unbinds also report the error. I think 2.6.31 worked fine. Any
> idea what's going wrong?

Odd. Any chance you can run 'git bisect' to figure out which patch
might have caused it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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