Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946338AbXBQA2E (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:28:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946339AbXBQA2E (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:28:04 -0500 Received: from mtagate8.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.157]:15967 "EHLO mtagate8.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946338AbXBQA2B convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:28:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1171569457.20758.76.camel@sinatra.austin.ibm.com> To: John Rose Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen , Me Notes , lkml , External List , Paul Mackerras , Paul Mackerras MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc1] ibmebus: Support dynamic addition and removal of adapters X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0 HF277 June 21, 2006 From: Joachim Fenkes Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:27:57 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D12MC064/12/M/IBM(Release 7.0.2HF71 | November 3, 2006) at 17/02/2007 01:27:59, Serialize complete at 17/02/2007 01:27:59 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1244 Lines: 41 John Rose wrote on 15.02.2007 14:57:37: > Looks good. Questions: how can the user space tools verify the success > of an add or remove? If the probe operation succeeds, the respective device will show up beneath /sys/bus/ibmebus/devices. > Also, will /sys/bus/ibmebus exist even if the system booted with no LHEA > nodes? Sure. > Can we also have an attribute "devspec" that communicates the open > firmware path through sysfs? This is already taken care of by of_device_register(). Cheers, Joachim --- Joachim Fenkes -- eHCA Linux Driver Developer and Hardware Tamer extraordinaire IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH -- Dept. 3627 (I/O Firmware Development 2) Schoenaicher Strasse 220 -- 71032 Boeblingen -- Germany eMail: fenkes@de.ibm.com -- Phone: +49 7031 16 1239 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Johann Weihen -- Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: B?blingen -- Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 - 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/