From: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>,
g@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>,
greg@kroah.com, rml@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:11:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050129001105.GQ8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501281823.27132.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 06:23:26PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Friday 28 January 2005 17:30, Adam Belay wrote:
> > Of course this patch is not going to be effective alone. We also need
> > to change the init order. If a driver is registered early but isn't the
> > best available, it will be bound to the device prematurely. This would
> > be a problem for carbus (yenta) bridges.
> >
> > I think we may have to load all in kernel drivers first, and then begin
> > matching them to hardware. Do you agree? If so, I'd be happy to make a
> > patch for that too.
> >
>
> I disagree. The driver core should automatically unbind generic driver
> from a device when native driver gets loaded. I think the only change is
> that we can no longer skip devices that are bound to a driver and match
> them all over again when a new driver is loaded.
And what happens if we've already got the object busy?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-29 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-28 22:30 Adam Belay
2005-01-28 23:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-28 23:33 ` Adam Belay
2005-01-28 23:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-29 0:05 ` Adam Belay
2005-01-29 0:11 ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-01-29 2:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10 8:41 ` Greg KH
2005-02-10 17:18 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-10 18:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10 18:12 ` Greg KH
2005-02-10 21:26 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-10 18:33 ` Greg KH
2005-02-10 18:46 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10 21:32 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-10 18:45 ` Russell King
2005-02-10 21:37 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-25 23:41 ` Greg KH
2005-03-01 0:05 ` Adam Belay
2005-03-01 7:58 ` Greg KH
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