Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759596AbXEJHir (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 03:38:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756657AbXEJHik (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 03:38:40 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.137]:54829 "EHLO mtagate4.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756305AbXEJHij (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 03:38:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:38:24 +0200 From: Cornelia Huck To: david@lang.hm Cc: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Greg K-H , linux-kernel , Duncan Sands Subject: Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE) Message-ID: <20070510093824.0ca0682b@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20070508153713.344cc881@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070508212117.0be9dfe5@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070509095812.016035ee@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070509111515.0cb3e63a@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070509152024.1a57d82a@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070509190736.35cf51d2@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070509194845.1caf5fd0@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070509203619.5a8e2f5c@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Organization: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-Legal: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Johann Weihen =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrung:?= Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=F6blingen?= Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1016 Lines: 22 On Wed, 9 May 2007 11:52:59 -0700 (PDT), david@lang.hm wrote: > this sounds like something that you want to load the driver module for > when you want to use it and unload the driver module when you are done. A common case is that you only want to use some of all your devices of a certain model. (My view may be strongly influenced by the s390 perspective, where we only have a quite limited amount of different models and device drivers. In the highly diverse PC world, module load/unload may indeed be the better way, since it doesn't require additional work.) > if you want to make a seperate enable/disable function I think it would > probably be more appropriate to use the power management functions. It might. (s390 doesn't currently have power management.) - 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/