Messages in this thread | | | From | Ferenc Wagner <> | Subject | Re: RocketPort Linux driver errors on module reload | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:48:28 +0200 |
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Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> writes:
> I meant the creating of a git repository with only the module would be the > easiest possible and most comfortable way for you :). Otherwise I can post you a > patch serie.
We can go either way, as you prefer.
> On 10/18/2007 11:53 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> I expected an improper way to have some disadvantages at least. :) > > Yes, if you have pci hotpluggable motherboard :). Pci probing (the new method) > allows you adding/probing pci devices on the fly, not only when the module is > loading.
Thanks for the explanation. Maybe one day the E15k-s in the basement will make pretty good serial port concentrators.
> I did such switches in drivers several times yet, but I can't assure you, that I > won't make any mistake, but this driver seems not to need too many changes. > Maybe functionality regressions would occur rather than instability of system.
All right.
> Anyway I would rather wait for the changes from comtrol to not break their > upcoming patches (if they post them in some short term) and then do these changes.
Ah, I didn't know you were in contact with them. Till now I only got a notice that my request had been forwarded to another continent with the Linux developer. :) Sure, let's wait for the answer. -- Regards, Feri. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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