From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] drivers/base: export lock_device_hotplug/unlock_device_hotplug
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:02:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180817170239.GF24945@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecc08303-96ee-76ad-fba4-0425413afa5a@redhat.com>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 01:56:35PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> E.g. When adding the memory block devices, we know that there won't be a
> driver to attach to (as there are no drivers for the "memory" subsystem)
> - the bus_probe_device() function that takes the device_lock() could
> pretty much be avoided for that case. But burying such special cases
> down in core driver code definitely won't make locking related to memory
> hotplug easier.
You don't have to have a driver for a device if you don't want to, or
you can just have a default one for all memory devices if you somehow
need it. No reason to not do this if it makes things easier for you.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-17 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-17 7:58 [PATCH RFC 0/2] mm: online/offline_pages called w.o. mem_hotplug_lock David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 7:59 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] drivers/base: export lock_device_hotplug/unlock_device_hotplug David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 8:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-17 8:56 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 9:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-08-17 9:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 10:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-17 11:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 11:28 ` Heiko Carstens
2018-08-17 11:56 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 17:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-08-17 8:57 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-08-17 7:59 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] mm/memory_hotplug: fix online/offline_pages called w.o. mem_hotplug_lock David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 8:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-08-17 8:27 ` David Hildenbrand
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