From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269722AbUHZXSd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:18:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269708AbUHZXPn (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:15:43 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:6530 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269736AbUHZXO3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:14:29 -0400 Message-ID: <412E6EC3.4060606@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:14:11 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Bjorn Helgaas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pci_disable_device kills hardware (was Re: [PATCH] propagate pci_enable_device() errors) References: <200408261329.16825.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <412E3F93.9030503@pobox.com> <20040826224117.GC12762@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20040826224117.GC12762@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:52:51PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>thanks much. >> >>We still need to figure out what to do for multiple-driver situations, >>since the additional of pci_disable_device() calls literally >>_guarantees_ failures in a two-drivers-for-the-same-hardware situation. > > > the "two-drivers-for-the-same-hardware" is what needs to be fixed. > You are on your own if you do that. Sure, but that's handwaving away reality... It stands to reason that we would all _prefer_ one driver for each piece of hardware. Jeff