On Thursday 24 April 2008, Sebastian Siewior wrote: > >And removing the subsidiary devices is supposed to unbind > >them ... though looking at it quickly, I suspect that the > >"spidev" driver doesn't check for unbound devices in its > >various I/O paths. > > Aha. So you mean that the read function which was spidev_read() while > the controller was available should point to something else once the > controller is gone?
No, I mean that the issue is most likely a spidev bug. > >So this sounds like a bug in the controller driver, or else > >in how spidev handles unbind. > > I try to look later at spidev once I find something that does a similar > job and works as expected.... They're all over the place, though not with SPI. The unbind method just updates some state that's checked in the I/O ops. - Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ spi-devel-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general
