From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
Grover Andrew <andrew.grover@intel.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers
Date: 18 Apr 2003 12:30:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050665407.1218.8.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030418073754.GA2753@kroah.com>
On Gwe, 2003-04-18 at 08:37, Greg KH wrote:
> > Hmm, well what about with a PCI hotswap capable board - presumably
> > then we could have the situation where a new VGA card appears that we
> > _have_ to POST?
>
> PCI Hotplug does not support video cards for just this reason.
Crap reason. You let the /sbin/hotplug helper use LRMI to post the card.
The technology side is not that hard except for the problems with X
sticking its nose in places it shouldnt and the PCI user space access
from kernel being too weak for some stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-18 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-14 21:09 Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers Grover, Andrew
2003-04-16 18:39 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-04-16 19:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-17 13:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-17 14:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 15:09 ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 15:47 ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 16:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-18 7:37 ` Greg KH
2003-04-18 7:51 ` John Bradford
2003-04-18 9:10 ` Russell King
2003-04-18 11:18 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-18 11:30 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-04-29 8:28 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-17 14:59 ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:04 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-14 19:07 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-14 19:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-14 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-23 15:34 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-14 17:09 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-14 17:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-23 15:29 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-14 10:00 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-14 10:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-16 18:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-04-16 19:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-23 15:32 ` Pavel Machek
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