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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] IDE update for 2.6.7-rc3 [1/12]
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      On certain platforms, it is desired that even devices soldered to the 
    MB be hotpluggable, at least in the logical sense.

    ++doug


    On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:36:01 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
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    >[ Greg added to cc: ]
    >
    >On Monday 14 of June 2004 11:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    >> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:36:08PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
    >> > > IMHO the PCI ->probe methods should always be __devinit. It's rather
    >> > > hard to make sure they're never every hotplugged in any way, especially
    >> > > with the dynamic id adding via sysfs thing.
    >> >
    >> > I generally agree but IMO it makes no sense for i.e. piix.c.
    >>
    >> Are you sure? I've seen piix3/4 in very strange place, iirc even in
    >> a docking station which is hotpluggable.
    >
    >Do you mean that south-bridge chipset itself is hotpluggable?
    >
    >AFAIK it is only ATA hotplug not PCI one.
    >
    >> And even if for this special hardware it's usually not doable there
    >> are things like greg's fake hotplug pci driver. So a non-__devinit pci
    >> probe method is a bug, please fix them in PCI.
    >
    >Greg, should I add "fake" PCI hotplug support to some IDE
    >drivers just to make fake hotplug PCI driver happy?
    >
    >Cheers.
    >
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