From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] tulip: de2104x, fix init. sections Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:32:55 +0000 Message-ID: <20050302073255.GA12859@infradead.org> References: <20050301214438.4653810e.randy.dunlap@verizon.net> <422558B2.6020105@pobox.com> <20050302072510.GA12464@infradead.org> <42256B89.2000104@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Randy.Dunlap" , netdev@oss.sgi.com, torvalds , akpm To: Jeff Garzik Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42256B89.2000104@pobox.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:30:17AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > When someone proves this is possible, I will accept the code change. I > doubt this will ever happen, for two reasons: > > 1) Hotplug PCI slots are highly likely to choke on the 2104x's very > early and slightly weird PCI hardware implementation. > > 2) It's an ancient card and nobody will ever bother trying to hotplug it. No, it's a matter of correctness. The pci core can call ->probe all the time and every driver must be prepared. Even if no one tries it physically it's easily done with Greg's fake hotplug driver.