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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>,
	a.zummo@towertech.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:20:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708171320.05734.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708172151050.5186@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Friday 17 August 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> We exchanges several mails a few weeks ago after the Debian bug caused
> >> by a modprobe loop. 
> >
> >Which has been fixed for some time now; it was caused by legacy
> >drivers, which are incapable of hotplugging.
> 
> Speaking of which ... does not platform: thing affect pcspkr and psmouse for
> x86 too?

psmouse is a serio driver, not a platform driver.

pcspkr is a platform driver, but not a legacy driver.
It could be made to hotplug.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-17 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-16 16:06 [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-17 10:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 15:23   ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 15:37     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 16:02       ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 16:15         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-17 16:26           ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 16:32           ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-17 16:55             ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 17:18               ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-17 19:50                 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 19:52                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 20:20                     ` David Brownell [this message]
2007-08-18  2:40                   ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-18  4:06                     ` David Brownell
2007-08-18 10:45                       ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-20  1:44                         ` legacy platform drivers and hotplugging David Brownell
2007-08-20  2:02                           ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-20  9:51                           ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-19 12:57             ` [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-19 21:45               ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-20  1:48                 ` David Brownell
2007-08-20  2:02                   ` David Brownell
2007-08-20  2:16                     ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-17 16:04       ` Atsushi Nemoto

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