From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 Altix : ioc4 serial driver support
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:51:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041218145104.GA7669@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C35A45.7090206@sgi.com>
> I'm not sure what you mean here. I don't have an entry for ->remove and the
> driver is self-contained.
In a PCI driver (well, just about any driver for a modern bus) you have
an probe and an remove entry. All code to setup and teardown a device must
happen in those functions, and must not use global state but only the device
instance pointers.
btw, no need to Cc linux-ia64, there's nothing ia64-specific in this driver.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-18 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-16 22:24 [PATCH] 2.6.10 Altix : ioc4 serial driver support Pat Gefre
2004-12-16 22:24 ` Pat Gefre
2004-12-16 22:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-12-16 23:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-17 16:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-12-17 22:14 ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-17 22:14 ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-18 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-22 0:28 Pat Gefre
2004-12-22 13:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-22 14:03 ` Russell King
2004-12-22 15:20 ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-22 18:49 ` Russell King
2004-12-22 19:53 ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-22 20:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-03 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
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