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

From: Bryan O'Sullivan
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 08:40:50 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:55 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:

> No, the only problems are with the way the various pieces of your
> drivers refer to devices by index.

OK. What's a safe way to iterate over the devices in the presence of
hotplug, then? I assume it's list_for_each_mumble; I just don't know
what mumble is :-)

> Also you only do this when the module is loaded, so you won't handle
> devices that are hot-plugged later.

No, ipath_max is updated any time a probe routine is called.

> And I don't see anything that
> would handle hot unplug either.

What would this anything look like, if I were hoping for an example to
emulate? There's nothing in LDD3 about this, so I'm kind of in the
dark.

<b

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Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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