From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933045AbXDBKrj (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 06:47:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933063AbXDBKrj (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 06:47:39 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:55510 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933045AbXDBKri (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 06:47:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:49:44 +0200 From: Cornelia Huck To: David Brownell Cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel list , Andres Salomon Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git 1/2] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers Message-ID: <20070402124944.0ad74092@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <200703311455.38490.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200703311455.38490.david-b@pacbell.net> Organization: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-Legal: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Johann Weihen =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrung:?= Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=F6blingen?= Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:55:38 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > This fix uses the newish per-device flag controlling issuance of "add" events. > (A previous version of this patch used a per-device "driver can hotplug" flag, > which only scrubbed $MODALIAS from the environment rather than suppressing the > entire hotplug event.) It also shrinks that flag to one bit, saving a word in > "struct device". Would this still work on top of driver-core-suppress-uevents-via-filter.patch (in -mm), which suppresses all uevents (not just the add event)? I'd think yes, but I'm not that familiar with platform devices :)