From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix wrong __init usage in IDE PCI drivers
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:42:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050119114219.GA10965@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e05011417376956cfcb@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:37:36AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:19:59 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > PCI probe routines (and funcions called by them) must use __devinit
> > as they can be called from PCI hotplug operations.
> >
> > While most of the drivers touched in the patch are for hardware that's
> > soldered on mainboards we now have a fake PCI HP driver that allows
> > hot remove / replug for them which they need to handle.
>
> Ugh... I really hate (lack of) flexibility of CONFIG_HOTPLUG...
>
> Shouldn't we have __fakedev{init,exit} ?
This really gets a little too complex. We also tended to trade a tiny
bit of vasted memory over complexity all the time in Linux's past..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-19 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-09 13:19 [PATCH] fix wrong __init usage in IDE PCI drivers Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-15 1:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-01-19 11:42 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-02-03 14:26 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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