From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
notting@redhat.com, arjanv@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
shemminger@osdl.org, davem@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:55:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030730015523.GB5228@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030730063310.70b5c794.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:33:10AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Agreed that'd be kinda silly. But I was "educated" earlier that driver
> loading shouldn't fail just because hardware is missing, due to hotplug.
>
> Is this wrong?
No, this is not wrong. Older pci drivers would refuse to load if they
didn't find their pci device in the system at that moment in time. All
pci drivers converted to the "new" api (new is a very relative term,
some 3 years old now...) will load just fine even if their devices are
not present.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-30 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-24 18:00 [PATCH] Remove module reference counting Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-27 18:50 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:54 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:11 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-07-25 19:32 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 22:26 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-26 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-26 19:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-27 5:38 ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-27 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 11:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 19:34 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-27 21:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-28 0:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 0:12 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-07-28 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 20:33 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-30 1:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-30 14:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 11:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 18:11 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-28 19:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-01 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-25 23:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 18:48 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 22:43 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-25 23:37 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-26 20:18 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-28 11:51 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-28 23:13 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-29 2:39 ` Rahul Karnik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-29 2:10 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
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