Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: + pnp-mpu401-adjust-pnp_register_driver-signature.patch added to -mm tree | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:55:47 -0700 |
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akpm@osdl.org writes:
> The patch titled > > pnp: mpu401: adjust pnp_register_driver signature > > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > > pnp-mpu401-adjust-pnp_register_driver-signature.patch > > See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find > out what to do about this > > > From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> > > This series of patches removes the assumption that pnp_register_driver() > returns the number of devices claimed. Returning the count is unreliable > because devices may be hot-plugged in the future. (Many devices don't support > hot-plug, of course, but PNP in general does.)
Huh?
How do onboard devices or ISA plug and play devices support hot-plug?
Or what devices supported by the pnp subsystem support hot-plug?
This may be a reasonable cleanup, but I'm worried about justifying it with supporting hardware that does not exist.
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