Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261301AbVEXB43 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 21:56:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261302AbVEXB43 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 21:56:29 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:59595 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261300AbVEXB41 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 21:56:27 -0400 Message-ID: <429289C6.9080707@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:56:22 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brent Casavant CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ioc4: Driver rework References: <20050523192157.V75588@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050523192157.V75588@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 857 Lines: 27 Brent Casavant wrote: > - The IOC4 chip implements multiple functions (serial, IDE, others not > yet implemented in the mainline kernel) but is not a multifunction > PCI device. In order to properly handle device addition and removal > as well as module insertion and deletion, an intermediary IOC4-specific > driver layer is needed to handle these operations cleanly. I disagree that a layer is needed. Just write a PCI driver that does the following in probe: register IDE register serial ... and undoes all that in remove. Device addition and removal work just fine with that scheme. Jeff - 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/