From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: VIO support, from Dave Boutcher, Hollis Blanchard and Santiago Leon
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:03:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119230336.GA5008@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040119224953.A7395@infradead.org>
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:49:53PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:32:30PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > Ick ick ick. I thought you all were not going to add this function, but
> > just use vio_register_driver() on it's own? Loading a driver should not
> > depend on CONFIG_HOTPLUG, as we now have different ways we can bind
> > drivers to devices after they are loaded (see the new_id stuff for pci
> > devices as an example.)
>
> I wonder why this code got merged at all. Half of it could easily be
> scrapped by using the driver model properly.
Which is another point. I thought I saw a port of this code to the
driver model for 2.6 on the ppc mailing list. Why this old code?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200401192200.i0JM0dtb006058@hera.kernel.org>
2004-01-19 22:32 ` [PATCH] ppc64: VIO support, from Dave Boutcher, Hollis Blanchard and Santiago Leon Greg KH
2004-01-19 22:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-19 23:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-19 23:29 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-01-20 6:30 ` Anton Blanchard
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