From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@verizon.net>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
akpm <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tulip: de2104x, fix init. sections
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 02:37:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42256D35.10602@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050302073255.GA12859@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:30:17AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>When someone proves this is possible, I will accept the code change. I
>>doubt this will ever happen, for two reasons:
>>
>>1) Hotplug PCI slots are highly likely to choke on the 2104x's very
>>early and slightly weird PCI hardware implementation.
>>
>>2) It's an ancient card and nobody will ever bother trying to hotplug it.
>
>
> No, it's a matter of correctness. The pci core can call ->probe all the
> time and every driver must be prepared. Even if no one tries it physically
> it's easily done with Greg's fake hotplug driver.
The change can be made when it's actually useful to someone. Making
janitors and Christoph happy is not a good enough reason in my book.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-02 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-02 5:44 [PATCH] tulip: de2104x, fix init. sections Randy.Dunlap
2005-03-02 6:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-02 7:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-02 7:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-02 7:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-02 7:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-02 7:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-02 7:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-02 7:37 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-03-02 7:41 ` Jeff Garzik
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