linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware

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Message-Id: <200708171320.05734.david-b@pacbell.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:20:05 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>, a.zummo@...ertech.it,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware

On Friday 17 August 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> We exchanges several mails a few weeks ago after the Debian bug caused
> >> by a modprobe loop. 
> >
> >Which has been fixed for some time now; it was caused by legacy
> >drivers, which are incapable of hotplugging.
> 
> Speaking of which ... does not platform: thing affect pcspkr and psmouse for
> x86 too?

psmouse is a serio driver, not a platform driver.

pcspkr is a platform driver, but not a legacy driver.
It could be made to hotplug.
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