Re: [PATCH] ppc64: VIO support, from Dave Boutcher, Hollis Blanchard and Santiago Leon

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 17:52:27 EST


On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:32:30PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Ick ick ick. I thought you all were not going to add this function, but
> just use vio_register_driver() on it's own? Loading a driver should not
> depend on CONFIG_HOTPLUG, as we now have different ways we can bind
> drivers to devices after they are loaded (see the new_id stuff for pci
> devices as an example.)

I wonder why this code got merged at all. Half of it could easily be
scrapped by using the driver model properly.

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