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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:20:05 -0700
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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.