linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Change misleading error message

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Message-ID: <aday6z7csb4.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:13:51 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@...ibm.com>
Cc:	LinuxPPC-Dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	OF-General <general@...ts.openfabrics.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>,
	OF-EWG <ewg@...ts.openfabrics.org>,
	Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	"Hoang-Nam Nguyen" <hnguyen@...ibm.com>,
	Alexander Schmidt <alexschm@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Change misleading error message

 > The error message printed when the eHCA driver prevents memory hotplug is
 > misleading -- the user might think that hot-removing the lhca, hotplugging
 > memory, then hot-adding the lhca again will work, but it doesn't.

That's too bad... I applied this patch but out of curiousity, why
doesn't the hot-remove/hot-add work?  I would have thought that
re-registering all of memory after the hot-add would do the right thing.
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