Subject: Re: [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and
	lightweight subnet management
From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:48:45 -0800
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On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:45 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> > We don't support hotplugged devices at the moment.
> 
> Why not?  Your cards can't be placed in a machine that supports PCI
> Hotplug (or PCI-E hotplug)?

No, the driver and userspace code doesn't support it yet.  That's all.

> You can't really tell users that (no matter
> how often I have wished I could...)

I don't expect this to be a practical problem.  We're planning to add
hotplug support to the driver once we have some cycles free.

	<b

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