From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:04:44 +0000 Subject: Re: Should driver changes cause hotplug event Message-Id: <20040216210443.GA22443@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040216052819.28584.qmail@web14916.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040216052819.28584.qmail@web14916.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:28:19PM -0800, Jon Smirl wrote: > 1) I had radeonfb loaded. It claims my video card. > 2) Next I load radeon, it will also claim my video card, but radeonfb is > blocking it, so it loads and doesn't initialize. > 3) Now I rmmod radeonfb. > > Should the hotplug system notice this and attach radeon to the > hardware since it is already loaded? I tried and it didn't attach > radeon to the hardware. This isn't a hotplug issue. It's a driver core issue. Currently the kernel does not try to match up drivers to any device that just had a driver removed from it. It's probably something I'll fix up in 2.7, and if it works well, consider backporting it to 2.6 (but there are lots of other issues with devinit sections that will be nasty to track down...) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ 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