Re: [Q] reprobe deferred-probing drivers

[Ming Lei]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski
<g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've got a situation, for which I currently don't have a (good) solution.
>
> Ok, right, would it be acceptable to just do something like
>
>                 if (dev->parent)
>                         device_lock(dev->parent);
>                 device_release_driver(dev);
>                 device_attach(dev);

The above should be OK for your purpose, and looks some other
deferred-probe devices may need this handling too.

But I am wondering how you could get the pointer of device A for
releasing driver in device B's remove()?

Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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