On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:43:39PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This patch originally started out just as a way for platform drivers to > easily add a sysfs group in a race-free way, but thanks to Dmitry's > patch, this series now is for all drivers in the kernel (hey, a unified > driver model works!!!) > > I've only converted a few platform drivers here in this series to show > how it works, but other busses can be converted after the first patch > goes into the tree. > > Here's the original 00 message, for people to get an idea of what is > going on here: > > If a platform driver wants to add a sysfs group, it has to do so in a > racy way, adding it after the driver is bound. To resolve this issue, > have the platform driver core do this for the driver, making the > individual drivers logic smaller and simpler, and solving the race at > the same time. > > All of these patches depend on the first patch. I'll take the first one > through my driver-core tree, and any subsystem maintainer can either ack > their individul patch and I will be glad to also merge it, or they can > wait until after 5.4-rc1 when the core patch hits Linus's tree and then > take it, it's up to them. Maybe make an immutable branch off 5.2 with just patch 1/10 so that subsystems (and the driver core tree itself) could pull it in at their leisure into their "*-next" branches and did not have to wait till 5.4 or risk merge clashes? Thanks. -- Dmitry
