[PATCH 2.6.21-rc1] ibmebus: Support dynamic addition and removal of adapters

[Joachim Fenkes]

John Rose <johnrose at austin.ibm.com> wrote on 15.02.2007 14:57:37:

> Looks good.  Questions: how can the user space tools verify the success
> of an add or remove? 

If the probe operation succeeds, the respective device will show up 
beneath
/sys/bus/ibmebus/devices.
 
> Also, will /sys/bus/ibmebus exist even if the system booted with no LHEA
> nodes?

Sure.
 
> Can we also have an attribute "devspec" that communicates the open
> firmware path through sysfs?

This is already taken care of by of_device_register().

Cheers,
  Joachim

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