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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>, Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci bridge class code
Date: 02 Jun 2003 14:39:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1054557568.535.47.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030602133258.A776@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:32, Russell King wrote:

> That would not help the case when you have the "generic" bridge module
> loaded and the specific bridge driver as a loadable module.

Well... we could store the match score of the driver, and if a newer
driver comes with a better match, call a replace() callback in the
current owner to ask if it allows "live" replacement... But that's
far beyond my original idea though

Ben.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-02 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-29 20:17 [PATCH] pci bridge class code Mark Haverkamp
2003-05-29 20:40 ` Russell King
2003-05-30  9:44   ` Alan Cox
2003-06-02 11:56     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-06-02 12:32       ` Russell King
2003-06-02 12:39         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-06-02 14:25           ` Mark Haverkamp
2003-05-30 23:13 ` Greg KH
2003-06-02 20:30   ` Mark Haverkamp
2003-06-02 20:35     ` Greg KH

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