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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:02:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108411352.5994.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4211013E.6@pobox.com>


> No.  You also need to consider situations such as out-of-tree drivers 
> for the same hardware (might not use PCI API), and situations where you 
> have peer devices discovered and used (PCI API doesn't have "hey, <this> 
> device is associated with <current driver>, too" capability)


there's not a lot you or anyone else can do about such broken (and often
proprietary) drivers.... if a device doesn't use the kernel API's its
end of game basically. Adding more new API's isn't going to help you ...




  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-15  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14  1:42 avoiding pci_disable_device() Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:06 ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 18:08   ` Alan Cox
2005-02-14 19:24   ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-14 19:34     ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 19:50       ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-14 19:54         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:51   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:58     ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-14 20:00       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 21:42         ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-14 22:25           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 22:46             ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-17 23:07               ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 20:02     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-02-15  2:05       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-16 11:27         ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-16 13:44           ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-14 10:43 Michal Rokos
2005-02-14 11:08 ` Christoph Hellwig

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