Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 May 2005 15:06:21 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_HOTPLUG, 2.4.x and ppc |
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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:23:04AM -0400, Marty Leisner wrote: > Its a custom chip with bridge functionality...(its not hotplug, > but the thought was "if hotplug can add a bridge at a later time, > so can an arbitrary module". There's a number of minor problems > in how BRIDGE_OTHER is handled (i.e. the first two bars should > be filled in like any other bridge, but everything else ignored). > > The goal is to add a PCI bus behind the bridge (the bios > and the kernel doesn't know about it). > > So I'm executing the sequence to add a new bus -- which > needs CONFIG_HOTPLUG to export the symbols -- which causes the > problem with PPC in the arch dependent part (it works fine > on intel platforms). > > Looking at the hotplug drivers, it looks like its tied to > intel architectures in places...but adding a PCI bus should be > a PCI thing...
Yes it should be a pci thing, but for 2.4, a lot of the codepaths have not been checked to see that they are all proper for a non-intel based system. Your finding is one such proof :)
thanks,
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