On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: > > I think the issue that Al raises about drivers grabbing devices, and > > then trying to unbind them might be a real problem. > > I agree. Do you think registering every in-kernel driver before probing > hardware would solve this problem?
In which case, consider whether we should be tainting the kernel if someone loads a device driver, it binds to a device, and then they unload that driver. It's precisely the same situation, and precisely the same mechanics as what I've suggested should be going on here. If one scenario is inherently buggy, so is the other. -- 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
