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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:27:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050625032715.GB3934@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0506240855460.24799-100000@monsoon.he.net>

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:57:15AM -0700, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > This adds a single file, "unbind", to the sysfs directory of every
> > device that is currently bound to a driver.  To unbind the driver from
> > the device, write anything to this file and they will be disconnected
> > from each other.
> 
> Do you think it would be better to put the 'unbind' file in the driver's
> directory and have it accept the bus ID of a device that it's bound to?
> This would make it more similar to the complementary 'bind' functionality.

Yeah, you are right, I'll make that change.  Heh, symmetry, what a
concept...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-25  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-24  5:12 [RFC] bind and unbind drivers from userspace through sysfs Greg KH
2005-06-24  5:14 ` [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace Greg KH
2005-06-24  5:15   ` [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to bind " Greg KH
2005-06-24 15:57   ` [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind " Patrick Mochel
2005-06-25  3:27     ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-06-25  4:16       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-25  9:39         ` Michael Tokarev
2005-06-25  3:05 ` [RFC] bind and unbind drivers from userspace through sysfs Bill Nottingham
2005-06-25  3:26   ` Greg KH
2005-06-25  4:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-29 23:47   ` Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:13     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-30 16:01       ` Greg KH
2005-06-30 20:20         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-07-01 22:31           ` Greg KH
2005-07-02  4:25             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-07-02  4:51               ` Greg KH
2005-07-02  5:20                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-30  6:04 [PATCH] driver core: add bus_find_device & driver_find_device functions Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:04 ` [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace Greg KH
2005-06-30  6:25   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-30  6:29     ` Greg KH
2005-07-25  4:09 Jon Smirl
2005-07-25  4:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-07-25 14:28   ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-25 14:48     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-07-25 16:30       ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-26  0:00         ` Greg KH
2005-07-26  0:28           ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-26  0:30             ` Greg KH
2005-07-26  0:56               ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-26  1:54                 ` Greg KH
2005-07-26  3:15                   ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-26  3:29                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-07-28  2:05                     ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28  3:46                       ` Greg KH
2005-07-28  3:59                         ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28  4:05                           ` Greg KH
2005-07-28  4:49                             ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28  5:49                               ` Greg KH
2005-07-28  7:04                                 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-07-28 12:54                                   ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28 13:09                                     ` Oliver Neukum
2005-07-28 13:16                                     ` Paulo Marques
2005-07-28 18:09                                     ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-07-28 19:03                                     ` Greg KH
2005-07-28 19:57                                       ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28 20:22                                         ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-07-28 20:27                                           ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-29 18:50                                             ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-06  0:42                                               ` Greg KH
2005-08-06  3:48                                                 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-21 22:21                                             ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28 21:10                                         ` Oliver Neukum
2005-07-28 21:12                                           ` Jon Smirl
2002-01-01  7:53                                             ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-05 13:32                                               ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-05 18:01                                                 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-05 18:14                                                   ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-05 18:20                                                     ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-05 18:47                                                       ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-05 20:07                                                         ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-05 20:33                                                           ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-06  9:39                                                             ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-07 18:50                                                             ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-07 18:47                                                 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-07 20:17                                                   ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-07 21:06                                                     ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-05 22:31                                               ` David Weinehall
2005-07-28 21:17                                             ` Oliver Neukum
2005-07-28 12:52                                 ` Jon Smirl

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