Re: [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics andlightweight subnet management

From: Bryan O'Sullivan
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 19:46:18 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:45 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> > We don't support hotplugged devices at the moment.
>
> Why not? Your cards can't be placed in a machine that supports PCI
> Hotplug (or PCI-E hotplug)?

No, the driver and userspace code doesn't support it yet. That's all.

> You can't really tell users that (no matter
> how often I have wished I could...)

I don't expect this to be a practical problem. We're planning to add
hotplug support to the driver once we have some cycles free.

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