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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unclean yanking out of device?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:19:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401150119.29552.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040114160002.G57254@forte.austin.ibm.com>


> That pci controller needs to tell the OS that it is going to shut down
> that pci slot.  Otherwise that pci controller violates the PCI spec.

It is illegal. That doesn't mean that Linux has a fundamental problem
dealing with it.
 
> Note, yes I know that cPCI controllers do this, that's a totally
> different story... the os still needs to know before turning off a slot.

Most notably, it is normal for CardBus, which is an example of how
to do such things.

	Regards
		Oliver



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-15  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-14 22:00 unclean yanking out of device? linas
2004-01-14 22:15 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-14 22:19 ` Greg KH
2004-01-14 23:08 ` linas
2004-01-14 23:24 ` Greg KH
2004-01-14 23:49 ` Paul Ionescu
2004-01-14 23:57 ` linas
2004-01-15  0:19 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2004-01-15  0:19 ` Greg KH
2004-01-15  0:34 ` Greg KH
2004-01-15  0:36 ` David Brownell
2004-01-15  1:16 ` linas
2004-01-15  1:20 ` linas
2004-01-15  1:33 ` Greg KH
2004-01-15  1:35 ` Greg KH
2004-01-15  1:57 ` linas
2004-01-15 17:17 ` Richard Troth
2004-01-15 18:38 ` linas
2004-01-15 21:22 ` David Hinds
2004-01-24  0:38 ` Greg KH

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