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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make hot unplugging of PCI buses work
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:48:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030224054830.GA31528@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030223173441.D20405@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 05:34:41PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> 
> Currently, we do not have a way to tell the PCI subsystem "this device
> has gone, as have all its children" without manually walking the device
> tree.  I suspect real docking stations will require this same
> functionality.

Yeah, the pci hotplug driver all implemented their own code to do this,
it's much smarter to put this in the core like you just did.

> Furthermore, I propose that pci_remove_device() shall disappear -
> and this devices makes it so (thereby breaking existing hotplug
> drivers.)

I like the patch, nice job.  If you don't mind, I'll add it to my tree,
fix up all of the pci hotplug drivers, and then send all of that off to
Linus.  Is that ok?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-24  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-23 17:34 [PATCH] Make hot unplugging of PCI buses work Russell King
2003-02-23 18:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-23 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-23 19:32   ` Russell King
2003-02-23 21:29     ` Alan Cox
2003-02-24  0:10     ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-02-23 21:01   ` Scott Murray
2003-02-23 21:24     ` Russell King
2003-02-23 22:27       ` Scott Murray
2003-02-24  0:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-24  5:40         ` Scott Murray
2003-02-24  6:08     ` Greg KH
2003-02-24  5:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-02-24 10:03   ` Russell King

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