From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763082AbYGBJVR (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 05:21:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752934AbYGBJVG (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 05:21:06 -0400 Received: from smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.97]:25801 "HELO smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752910AbYGBJVF (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 05:21:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=GPVWhtDK0GhJo9WQGcQ4helxawVPDdjpdMH7fAZ8pFHOgXBOvRfBQh9jsrgulMqT9bolhfEn1bpEoCUOFAca2DGEQpCUHJFSNJ/uFEyXcxiIMT4zB6AzHRtCFqoi+N9AXl6MTvigl3/TM/fC7GYRzdI12tTpARXZRQjKp70TE3w= ; X-YMail-OSG: iOLMU4UVM1krK30mNv3Rr.0qR6328fMga2rjsxl378_mPm9xzL5c19WYEv1530NpQRHC6hdUpb5t4uKmRO660qXELN86MNPkvO934615K1S9eTs7Zvjl9g97Lz9jcbJXXV0- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.26-rc8] drivers/power: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:21:02 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: kay.sievers@vrfy.org, mreimer@vpop.net, Anton Vorontsov , lkml References: <200807020013.14579.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080702014906.6303fd97.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080702014906.6303fd97.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807020221.02571.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > Do we think this is needed in 2.6.26? > > In 2.6.25.x? I don't think either. Arguably this particular type of driver should always be statically linked. And these are new enough that they weren't hit by the regression (fix) aspect of $PATCH. - Dave