Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934723AbXEHWUM (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 18:20:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934658AbXEHWT7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 18:19:59 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:53043 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934585AbXEHWT6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 18:19:58 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4640F76A.9070707@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:19:22 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070408 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, bunk@stusta.de, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE) References: <20070508153713.344cc881@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070508141149.GJ4226@stusta.de> <20070508.141554.112287211.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070508.141554.112287211.davem@davemloft.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 16 David Miller wrote: [persistent unique device property -> persistent unique device name] > Those mappings should exist statically somewhere, not depend upon > something as frivolous as probe ordering. We do this all the time for hotpluggable hardware. And bus types without hotplugging capability become increasingly rare nowadays. :-) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= -=--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/