On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 06:10:45AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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? Good idea, I will do that when I apply it after a few days to give people a chance to review it. thanks, greg k-h
