From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@de.ibm.com>
Cc: LinuxPPC-Dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       OF-General <general@lists.openfabrics.org>,
       Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>, OF-EWG <ewg@lists.openfabrics.org>,
       Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com>,
       Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
       "Hoang-Nam Nguyen" <hnguyen@de.ibm.com>,
       Alexander Schmidt <alexschm@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Change misleading error message
References: <200806061835.43802.fenkes@de.ibm.com>
	<48499C11.7030504@gmail.com> <200811251358.06729.fenkes@de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:13:51 -0800
In-Reply-To: <200811251358.06729.fenkes@de.ibm.com> (Joachim Fenkes's message
	of "Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:58:06 +0100")
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 > The error message printed when the eHCA driver prevents memory hotplug is
 > misleading -- the user might think that hot-removing the lhca, hotplugging
 > memory, then hot-adding the lhca again will work, but it doesn't.

That's too bad... I applied this patch but out of curiousity, why
doesn't the hot-remove/hot-add work?  I would have thought that
re-registering all of memory after the hot-add would do the right thing.
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