[PATCH] rpaphp broken in ameslab

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:02:25AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Greg KH writes:
>
> > But that's not relevant here.  I want to know when this hack will be
> > removed, and done properly, in a arch-independent manner.  If it's not
> > on the shortlist of things to do, I can't live with it, and will have to
> > remove it, because that means it will never get fixed :(
>
> What I propose is that the EEH code export a notifier list for code
> that wants to know about EEH events, and do a notifier_call_chain when
> events such as slot isolation occur.  The rpaphp code can then
> register itself.  When a slot isolation event occurs, the rpaphp code
> can then do whatever is appropriate.  This seems to me to be as
> fundamental as a device driver being able to do request_irq().  The
> rpaphp code is part of the device driver for the pci subsystem and it
> needs to be notified when its hardware changes state.

That's acceptable to me.

thanks,

greg k-h

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