Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:41:30 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] de2104x.c missing __devexit_p in 2.5.43 |
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Adam J. Richter wrote: > > I believe that there are motherboards that use a chipset from > > Compaq that allows hot plugging and unplugging of ordinary PCI cards, > > supported by drivers in linux-2.5.43/drivers/hotplug/cpq*.[ch]. At a > > trade show, I saw a demo of a motherboard with such a capability (not > > running Linux, but I think from Compaq). > > > You are correct that all PCI cards are now hotpluggable. > > My position is that _my_ driver will not be converted to be hotpluggable > until someone actually does so. Until such a time, I prefer the space > savings that keeping it non-hotplug-able provides.
If I read the original post correctly, you save a LOT of space, becasue the driver won't link without the patch. Sorry if I misread that, and it's desirable to avoid such a dependency, but if it's hack or forget, expect hack.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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