On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovet...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I've got a situation, for which I currently don't have a (good) solution. > > Ok, right, would it be acceptable to just do something like > > if (dev->parent) > device_lock(dev->parent); > device_release_driver(dev); > device_attach(dev);
The above should be OK for your purpose, and looks some other deferred-probe devices may need this handling too. But I am wondering how you could get the pointer of device A for releasing driver in device B's remove()? Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
