From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Linux/PPC Mailing List <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hotplug for openfirmware/macio devices
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:09:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414A011E.9040001@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4149F2A9.9040601@suse.com>
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Jeff Mahoney wrote:
|
| Hey all -
|
| Many devices on the macintosh hardware platform are hidden behind a
| macio asic that places devices beyond the PCI bus for hotplug. Loading
| the driver manually works fine, but we have this wonderful hotplug
| system now. Why should macio be a second class citizen?
|
| At least for me, the most noticable one was my airport card, but there
| may be others. I only have an ibook and a powermac.
|
| Attached are three patches, which do the following:
| * kernel-of-hotplug.diff; against 2.6.9-rc2 (mainline)
| Take a look if you're interested. My familiarity with the PPC world is
| peripheral at best. I'd love feedback.
As a quick note, it's been pointed out to me that some of the drivers
won't compile as is.
I only compile tested with the drivers I use, so stuff slipped by. I'll
have an updated kernel patch in a little bit.
- -Jeff
- --
Jeff Mahoney
SuSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-16 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-16 20:08 [PATCH] Hotplug for openfirmware/macio devices Jeff Mahoney
2004-09-16 21:09 ` Jeff Mahoney [this message]
2004-09-16 22:27 ` Jeff Mahoney
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2004-09-18 19:18 Jeff Mahoney
2004-09-19 4:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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