On Wed, 14 May 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > My take on the situation is this. For proper handling we > need driver device_detach and device_reattach methods. > > With the following semantics. The device_detach methods > will disable DMA and place the hardware in a sane state > from which the device driver can reclaim and reinitialize it, > but the hardware will not be touched. > > device_reattach reattaches the driver to the hardware. How would these differ from the already-existing remove and probe methods? Alan Stern
