Messages in this thread | | | From | (John Alvord) | Subject | Re: [linux-audio-dev] ISA Plug & Play support in kernel | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 06:38:04 GMT |
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On 8 Jan 1999 13:09:33 +0100, you wrote:
> Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes: >> On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 09:19:21AM +0000, David Howells wrote: >> >> > * Doing the configuration management inside the kernel means that >> > drivers can have their resource values changed on the fly without having >> > to be reloaded... This isn't as bad as it sounds, it just takes a little >> > bit of discipline on the part of the kernel and the driver. >> >> I'm not convinced this is a good idea. [...] >> >> We get by perfectly well without on-the-fly reassignments now; I don't >> see a pressing need for it. >> >Keep in mind that as soon as we want to do hot-plugging for PCI(*), we need >to do on-the-fly reassignment. And in that case we might as well go all the >way and have one uniform interface for such stuff in the kernel. > >*: ... from what I gleaned from a discussion of this on linux-kernel a few > months or so ago, i.e. I might be wrong.
Isn't there a big upcomming problem with USB and firewire devices which are naturally hot-pluggable?
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