Re: [PATCH] IDE update for 2.6.7-rc3 [1/12]

[dwm]

  On certain platforms, it is desired that even devices soldered to the 
  MB be hotpluggable, at least in the logical sense.  

++doug


On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:36:01 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
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>[ Greg added to cc: ]
>
>On Monday 14 of June 2004 11:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:36:08PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> > > IMHO the PCI ->probe methods should always be __devinit.  It's rather
>> > > hard to make sure they're never every hotplugged in any way, especially
>> > > with the dynamic id adding via sysfs thing.
>> >
>> > I generally agree but IMO it makes no sense for i.e. piix.c.
>>
>> Are you sure?  I've seen piix3/4 in very strange place, iirc even in
>> a docking station which is hotpluggable.
>
>Do you mean that south-bridge chipset itself is hotpluggable?
>
>AFAIK it is only ATA hotplug not PCI one.
>
>> And even if for this special hardware it's usually not doable there
>> are things like greg's fake hotplug pci driver.  So a non-__devinit pci
>> probe method is a bug, please fix them in PCI.
>
>Greg, should I add "fake" PCI hotplug support to some IDE
>drivers just to make fake hotplug PCI driver happy?
>
>Cheers.
>
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