Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 03:44:30PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 03:18:33PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
This device will never ever meet a platform where it can be hotplugged.
According to a FreeBSD list from 1995, you could get these chips on a PCI
card from several different vendors.
Yes, they are ancient 32-bit PCI cards, which will never make an
appearance on a PCI hotplug platform. So, it's wasteful to support
hotplug in code that will never be hotplugged (as I've said for years).
Sorry, you're saying that anyone who has found one of these cards and
wants to plug them into a hotplug slot in their shiny new server is just
SOL? That makes no sense, Jeff. We've fixed *so* many old drivers to
confirm to these rules, why's this one so special? I'd understand if it
were only found on motherboards, but it can be found on cards.
Plus it silences a warning. Isn't that enough reason of its own?
Early tulips were electrically "special", so I am highly doubtful it
would work in any case.
But overall it doesn't make sense to me to force code to exist, that we
know will likely never ever be needed.
Whatever. This patch comes up every year or two, so I suppose I should
just quit fighting and eat the needless code size increase, to silence
the human warnings :)
Jeff
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