From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964860AbVHYVsE (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964862AbVHYVsE (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:48:04 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:57776 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964860AbVHYVsD (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:48:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 8/8] PCI Error Recovery: PPC64 core recovery routines From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Linas Vepstas Cc: Paul Mackerras , John Rose , akpm@osdl.org, Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz In-Reply-To: <20050825162118.GH25174@austin.ibm.com> References: <20050823231817.829359000@bilge> <20050823232143.003048000@bilge> <20050823234747.GI18113@austin.ibm.com> <1124898331.24668.33.camel@sinatra.austin.ibm.com> <20050824162959.GC25174@austin.ibm.com> <17165.3205.505386.187453@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1124930943.5159.168.camel@gaston> <20050825162118.GH25174@austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:43:57 +1000 Message-Id: <1125006237.12539.23.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:21 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:49:03AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark: > > > > Of course, we'll possibly end up with a different ethX or whatever, but > > Yep, but that's not an issue, since all the various device-naming > schemes are supposed to be fixing this. Its a distinct problem; > it needs to be solved even across cold-boots. Ok, so what is the problem then ? Why do we have to wait at all ? Why not just unplug/replug right away ? > (Didn't I ever tell you about the day I added a new disk controller to > my system, and /dev/hda became /dev/hde and thus /home was mounted on > /usr and /var as /etc and all hell broke loose? Owww, device naming > is a serious issue for home users and even more so for enterprise-class > users). > > --linas >