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Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-dev: Don't block the adapter from unregistering

From Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-dev: Don't block the adapter from unregistering
Date 2016-07-18 22:30 +0200
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On 11-07-16, 14:50, Greg KH wrote:
> Ideally, yes, userspace will have closed that device node.  But again,
> hardware isn't kind and sometimes decides to be yanked out by users
> before they tell the kernel about it.  We handle this for almost all
> other device subsystems, i2c is one of the last to be fixed up in this
> manner.  Sorry it's taken us well over a decade to get here :)
> 
> hope that explains things better,

@Jean: Ping :)

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viresh

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Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-dev: Don't block the adapter from unregistering Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> - 2016-07-11 14:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-dev: Don't block the adapter from unregistering Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-07-12 01:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-dev: Don't block the adapter from unregistering Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-18 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-dev: Don't block the adapter from unregistering Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> - 2016-07-25 11:40 +0200

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