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
next prev parent 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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