From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: notting@redhat.com, arjanv@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
shemminger@osdl.org, davem@redhat.com, greg@kroah.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
Date: 30 Jul 2003 15:40:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1059576018.8052.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030730063310.70b5c794.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 21:33, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I guess kudzu could simply do lots of I/O ops directly on the floppy
> > hardware to detect it without loading drivers but thats pretty fugly.
>
> Agreed that'd be kinda silly. But I was "educated" earlier that driver
> loading shouldn't fail just because hardware is missing, due to hotplug.
>
> Is this wrong?
On systems without hotplug, on not hotpluggable devices and in a few other
cases - yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-30 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-24 18:00 [PATCH] Remove module reference counting Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-27 18:50 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:54 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:11 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-07-25 19:32 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 22:26 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-26 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-26 19:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-27 5:38 ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-27 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 11:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 19:34 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-27 21:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-28 0:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 0:12 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-07-28 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 20:33 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-30 1:55 ` Greg KH
2003-07-30 14:40 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-28 11:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 18:11 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-28 19:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-01 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-25 23:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 18:48 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 22:43 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-25 23:37 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-26 20:18 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-28 11:51 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-28 23:13 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-29 2:39 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-29 2:10 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
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