[linux-usb-devel] Re: Unbinding drivers for devices with children

2005-08-11 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:27:53PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > If you like the patch, I'll resend it with a real Changelog message. I like it, care to resend? thanks, greg k-h --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference

[linux-usb-devel] Re: Unbinding drivers for devices with children

2005-08-11 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > Well, there's still a little bit to discuss. Pat mentioned that in > > general, the remove method is supposed to handle children. Presumably > > this applies to the usb_generic driver. Should it try to unconfigure a > > USB device (thus deleting the inter

[linux-usb-devel] Re: Unbinding drivers for devices with children

2005-08-11 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:26:35AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:59:56PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > > There probably are situations

[linux-usb-devel] Re: Unbinding drivers for devices with children

2005-08-11 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:59:56PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > There probably are situations where this doesn't matter. But in > > > > general, > > > > don't you t

[linux-usb-devel] Re: Unbinding drivers for devices with children

2005-08-10 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:59:56PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Alan Stern wrote: > > > There probably are situations where this doesn't matter. But in general, > > > don't you think the driver core should automatically remove all chi

[linux-usb-devel] Re: Unbinding drivers for devices with children

2005-08-09 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Alan Stern wrote: > > > Greg and Pat: > > > > I've heard there's work going on to allow for manual binding and unbinding > > of drivers to devices, although I haven't seen any of the email. (URLs > > appreciated!) Here's a subtl

[linux-usb-devel] Re: Unbinding drivers for devices with children

2005-08-09 Thread Patrick Mochel
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Alan Stern wrote: > Greg and Pat: > > I've heard there's work going on to allow for manual binding and unbinding > of drivers to devices, although I haven't seen any of the email. (URLs > appreciated!) Here's a subtle point which may not have occurred to anyone > yet: When