From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762461AbXKTUX5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:23:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759344AbXKTUXp (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:23:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50021 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758359AbXKTUXo (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:23:44 -0500 From: Danny Kukawka To: Michael E Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] drivers/firmware/dcdbas: rework to get uevents Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:23:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Frank Seidel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Domsch , Doug Warzecha References: <200711141932.03190.fseidel@suse.de> <200711161153.54423.fseidel@suse.de> <20071120193515.GA16195@humbolt.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20071120193515.GA16195@humbolt.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711202123.36112.dkukawka@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Dienstag, 20. November 2007, Michael E Brown wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:53:53AM +0100, Frank Seidel wrote: > > On Mittwoch 14 November 2007 19:32:01, you (Frank Seidel) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > this is a small trivial rework of the dcdbas driver so > > > HAL can get uevents when platform devices are added or removed. > > > > Sorry for the noise! In the meantime i realized (thanks to a nice > > colleague) this isn't really necessary anymore since patch > > 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf is in mainline. > > > > If you'd anyway to add this patch i gues this is a better version > > of it. > > Frank, Danny, > > Can you possibly explain a bit why this patch is necessary? Danny, does > this fix the module load problems that you had detailed in your earlier > email? > > If this is still necessary, then either Doug or Matt can queue it up for > next kernel release. AFAIK the patch Frank posted isn't needed anymore since this is commited to mainline: 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf Danny -- Danny Kukawka dkukawka@suse.de Mobile Devices SUSE LINUX a Novell Business Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg; GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)