On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:33:13AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:35:51AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 08:48:46AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > So at least, unbind should fail as well as bind. > > > > > > > > > > That would be Greg's domain s it is driver core decision whether to > > > allow unbinding platform devices registered with > > > platform_driver_probe(). > > > > No, I do not see why that should not be allowed. > > > > Because once you did unbind the device you are stuck (unless the driver > is compiled as a module, but then you could just unload the module > instead of unbinding). Disallowing unbind would allow discarding not > only __devinit but __devexit sections when driver is built in which > would make ebedded people happy[^Hier]. Yeah, good point. Does anyone do bind/unbind with platform devices today? If not, a patch changing this would be welcome. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
