linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/5] hid: Extending the device-driver matching mechanism

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1204090152140.24006@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2012 01:53:53 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>
Cc:	Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Stephane Chatty <chatty@...c.fr>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] hid: Extending the device-driver matching mechanism

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Henrik Rydberg wrote:

> The simplest solution is probably to defer parsing for drivers known
> from the device list. 

That would unfortunately still break dynamic rebinding of the drivers via 
sysfs bind/unbind facility (which has apparently been already broken wrt. 
report_fixup() callback and I am looking into it right now, but that's a 
different story).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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