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authorDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>2007-05-08 11:29:39 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 22:15:10 +0400
commit49a4ec188f9a96c9a5567956718213d38a456a19 (patch)
tree29ac9f610ed355b3e3f752206c03180054df9bd7 /drivers/base
parenteb81d93046e7de51d47b8f1303d80e6f51ac9e33 (diff)
downloadlinux-49a4ec188f9a96c9a5567956718213d38a456a19.tar.xz
fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers
We've had various reports of some legacy "probe the hardware" style platform drivers having nasty problems with hotplug support. The core issue is that those legacy drivers don't fully conform to the driver model. They assume a role that should be the responsibility of infrastructure code: creating device nodes. The "modprobe" step in hotplugging relies on drivers to have split those roles into different modules. The lack of this split causes the problems. When a driver creates nodes for devices that don't exist (sending a hotplug event), then exits (aborting one modprobe) before the "modprobe $MODALIAS" step completes (by failing, since it's in the middle of a modprobe), the result can be an endless loop of modprobe invocations ... badness. This fix uses the newish per-device flag controlling issuance of "add" events. (A previous version of this patch used a per-device "driver can hotplug" flag, which only scrubbed $MODALIAS from the environment rather than suppressing the entire hotplug event.) It also shrinks that flag to one bit, saving a word in "struct device". So the net of this patch is removing some nasty failures with legacy drivers, while retaining hotplug capability for the majority of platform drivers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/platform.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index 17b5ece8f82c..eb84d9d44645 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ static void platform_device_release(struct device *dev)
*
* Create a platform device object which can have other objects attached
* to it, and which will have attached objects freed when it is released.
+ *
+ * This device will be marked as not supporting hotpluggable drivers; no
+ * device add/remove uevents will be generated. In the unusual case that
+ * the device isn't being dynamically allocated as a legacy "probe the
+ * hardware" driver, infrastructure code should reverse this marking.
*/
struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, unsigned int id)
{
@@ -172,6 +177,12 @@ struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, unsigned int id)
pa->pdev.id = id;
device_initialize(&pa->pdev.dev);
pa->pdev.dev.release = platform_device_release;
+
+ /* prevent hotplug "modprobe $(MODALIAS)" from causing trouble in
+ * legacy probe-the-hardware drivers, which don't properly split
+ * out device enumeration logic from drivers.
+ */
+ pa->pdev.dev.uevent_suppress = 1;
}
return pa ? &pa->pdev : NULL;
@@ -351,6 +362,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_unregister);
* memory allocated for the device allows drivers using such devices
* to be unloaded iwithout waiting for the last reference to the device
* to be dropped.
+ *
+ * This interface is primarily intended for use with legacy drivers
+ * which probe hardware directly. Because such drivers create sysfs
+ * device nodes themselves, rather than letting system infrastructure
+ * handle such device enumeration tasks, they don't fully conform to
+ * the Linux driver model. In particular, when such drivers are built
+ * as modules, they can't be "hotplugged".
*/
struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(char *name, unsigned int id,
struct resource *res, unsigned int num)