On 6/3/05, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol at 2ka.mipt.ru> wrote: > > :) because USB controller will catch interrupt about new device attached. It does not really matter how we discover a device. I am arguing to what should be done once we know about it. > > > Btw, that's what my modalias patch was doing for w1 as well. > > yep. I liked your hotplug if you remember. > But you broke too many other things. > Not exactly, you just did not like a lot of things because you did not want to let go of your first design. > > If you don't bind to a driver to begin with you don't have to reconnect, do you? > > And what to do with that device when there is no driver for it. > Forget about it? This is wrong. Wait for driver and rescan the bus when it is added? > This is wrong. No,don;t forget. You just add a device to the bus. Without driver, that is it. > Do not compare w1 with USB/scsi/PCI any other "advanced" buses, this is completely > different things, so they just can not be compared. > > Dmitry, I see this discussion goes wrong way again... > Let's continue it from technical point: > you want different w1 design - like USB for example, > but it is completely wrong with w1 since > [quite previous e-mail] we can perform the search only > one time, and load a driver far after it. This is a feature, > which you want to remove [again], which allows such behaviour, > without it you just drop the device and just can not recall > later about it without full rescan.[/quote]. No, that is not what I am saying or proposing to do. When you find a device just add it to the master's bus, do not drop it. Just realize that having a family attached to it is not required. It will be just a device, without any attributes, sitting on the bus. When appropriate family driver is loaded it will scan all devices (rather in-kernel representation of them) and bind to ones it supports. Just like every other bus. Am I still being unclear as to what I propose? -- Dmitry
