Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752091AbWCJAEf (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:04:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752092AbWCJAEf (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:04:35 -0500 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:3978 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752091AbWCJAEf (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:04:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Roland Dreier Cc: rolandd@cisco.com, gregkh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org In-Reply-To: References: <1141948367.10693.53.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: PathScale, Inc. Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:04:34 -0800 Message-Id: <1141949074.10693.65.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 16 On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:00 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Bryan> We don't support hotplugged devices at the moment. > > How do you stop someone from hot plugging a PCIe device? You say "we don't support this yet" somewhere in big letters. The chips and cards support hotplug electrically and logically. We just haven't had time yet to do the driver support work, and won't for a while.