Re: [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 19:43:11 EST


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:52:47PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 15:26 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> > Similarly what protects against another process opening the device
> > right after the ipath_sma_alive = 0 setting, but before you do all the
> > cleanup that's after that?
>
> This is fixed by the stuff I just did in response to your earlier
> message.
>
> > And what protects against a hot unplug of a device after the test of s
> > against ipath_max?
>
> We don't support hotplugged devices at the moment.

Why not? Your cards can't be placed in a machine that supports PCI
Hotplug (or PCI-E hotplug)? You can't really tell users that (no matter
how often I have wished I could...)

thanks,

greg k-h
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