Re: [PATCH 0/2] w1 fixes for broken subsystem

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Sun Oct 06 2013 - 16:52:16 EST


Hi

06.10.2013, 23:13, "Hans-Frieder Vogt" <hfvogt@xxxxxxx>:
> In recent kernels the 1-wire kernel modules do not work any more. The module
> wire got broken in 3.11-rc1 and 3.12-rc1 introduced a further problem:

Looks like I somehow missed it and bugs got in

> 1: 3.11-rc1 introduced the automatic loading of slave modules. This blocks
> modprobe, because request_module is called with a locked mutex of the w1
> master.
> Loading of the slave module calls  w1_register_family, which calls in turn
> w1_reconnect_slaves and there mutex_lock(&dev->mutex) will wait forever....

That's correct

> 2: 3.12-rc1 introduced w1_bus_notify which assumes that all slaves have fops
> defined. This is not the case for e.g. w1_smem and maybe also breaks custom
> written modules.

Isn't fops are supposed to be in the slave device?
Although they look meaningless for most of devices, I would introduce them everywhere...

But anyway, your patches fix those problems, thanks a lot.
Greg, please queue them into appropriate trees.

Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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