From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Gefre Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:14:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 Altix : ioc4 serial driver support Message-Id: <41C35A45.7090206@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <200412162224.iBGMOQ52284713@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> <20041216231519.GA16249@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20041216231519.GA16249@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:24:26PM -0600, Pat Gefre wrote: > >>I have a serial driver for Altix I'd like to submit. >> >>The code is at: >>ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/033-ioc4-support >> >>Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre > > > I took a very short look and what spring to mind first is that the > device probing/remoal is rather bogus. The ->probe/->remove callbacks > of a PCI driver can be called at any time, and any initialization / > teardown actions must happen from those. A logical consequence of that > is that a proper PCI driver should have no global state. > Christoph, I'm not sure what you mean here. I don't have an entry for ->remove and the driver is self-contained. -- Pat