From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:19:29 +0000 Subject: Re: unclean yanking out of device? Message-Id: <200401150119.29552.oliver@neukum.org> List-Id: References: <20040114160002.G57254@forte.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20040114160002.G57254@forte.austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel