From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263792AbUASXEG (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:04:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263800AbUASXEG (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:04:06 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:58259 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263792AbUASXEE (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:04:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:03:36 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , anton@samba.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: VIO support, from Dave Boutcher, Hollis Blanchard and Santiago Leon Message-ID: <20040119230336.GA5008@kroah.com> References: <200401192200.i0JM0dtb006058@hera.kernel.org> <20040119223230.GA4885@kroah.com> <20040119224953.A7395@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040119224953.A7395@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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