From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] network driver updates
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:16:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A8C554A.8E4D7E76@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010214020707.28011E-100000@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> <3A8A7159.AF0E6180@colorfullife.com> <3A8A8937.A77BA18D@uow.edu.au> <20010214093859.B20503@sonic.net> <3A8AC6B6.9790FF9C@colorfullife.com> <3A8BC242.2C62DAA1@uow.edu.au>, <3A8BC242.2C62DAA1@uow.edu.au>; from Andrew Morton on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:49:22PM +1100 <20010215090807.C29356@sonic.net>
David Hinds wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:49:22PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Now, the thing I don't understand about David's design is the
> > final one. What 3c575_cb does is:
> >
> > CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y, MODULE=true
> > If the hardware isn't there, register the driver and
> > hang around.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Merely that I was trying to disassociate the concepts of module
> loading and device probing, and I thought it was most consistent to
> then allow people to load modules whenever they want, whether or not a
> device was present.
Fair enough. Thanks.
Another scenario may be where (say) a network driver is modprobed
from a hotpluggable disk controller. You want to be able to load
the netdriver, pop out the disk controller and then insert the network
card. Or vice-versa - load a parallel port driver across NFS then
pull the network card and push the parallel port card. Could use
local disks for this, of course.
hmm..
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-15 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010214020707.28011E-100000@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>
2001-02-14 11:51 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-14 11:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-14 13:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-02-14 12:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-14 13:33 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-14 17:38 ` David Hinds
2001-02-14 17:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-14 17:56 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-15 11:49 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-15 17:08 ` David Hinds
2001-02-15 22:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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