Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:18:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:18:39 -0500 Received: from mail.libertysurf.net ([213.36.80.91]:48935 "EHLO mail.libertysurf.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:18:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:17:26 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= X-X-Sender: To: Erik Andersen cc: Greg KH , Jeff Garzik , Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9 In-Reply-To: <20020222212252.GA30290@codepoet.org> Message-ID: <20020222001333.U2109-100000@gerard> MIME-Version: 1.0 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 On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Thu Feb 21, 2002 at 10:24:22PM +0100, G?rard Roudier wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply. But my concern is user convenience in _average_ > > here. Basically, I want the 99% of users that cannot afford neither need > > nor want PCI hotplug to have their system just dead in order to make happy > > the 1%. > > I think _lots_ of people have laptops -- far more than just 1%. > Those laptops have cardbus slots, which need PCI hotplug to work > properly. And I _know_ that Linus has a laptop with a cardbus > slot... My reply was in the only context of sym53c8xx PCI-SCSI chips. Even in the full SCSI context + laptops, the 'lots of people' you are talking about should be near absolute zero in my opinion. :) G?rard. - 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/