From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751644AbaEGRFe (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2014 13:05:34 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:51284 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751301AbaEGRFc (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2014 13:05:32 -0400 Message-ID: <536A67B8.1080805@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 10:04:56 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: One Thousand Gnomes , "David E. Box" CC: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86/iosf: Make IOSF driver modular and usable by more drivers References: <1398810789-2301-1-git-send-email-david.e.box@linux.intel.com> <1399052199-8703-1-git-send-email-david.e.box@linux.intel.com> <20140507174801.20fc0d67@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140507174801.20fc0d67@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/07/2014 09:48 AM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2014 10:36:39 -0700 >> +bool iosf_mbi_available(void) >> +{ >> + return mbi_pdev; >> +} >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(iosf_mbi_available); > > Probably worth a follow up patch that comments this so the assumption > that iosf can never be unloaded or hot-unplugged is clear. > When you say unloaded you mean the module or the hardware? -hpa