linux-kernel - Re: Problems with fakephp

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Message-ID: <20081203174318.GB26130@ldl.fc.hp.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:43:18 -0700
From:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
To:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
Cc:	Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: Problems with fakephp

* Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>:
> Alex Chiang wrote:
> > I think the way forward is:
> >
> > 	- merge in the function level hotplug patch
> 
> Sorry that I don't get the point. To PCI Hotplug core or to fakephp?

I was talking about Trent's patch to add the "remove" attribute
to the pci-sysfs. Not fakephp.

> > 	- wholesale replacement of fakephp with new fakephp
> > 	- schedule new fakephp for deprecation
>                    ^^^
> 
> I don't think so.

If we get function level reset as part of the PCI core, then I
don't see what fakephp offers us anymore.

> > 	- encourage anyone who wants function level hotplug to
> > 	  use the 'remove' attribute
> >
> > Thoughts? Jesse, Willy, Eike, Greg?
> 
> Oh yes, let's start using dummyphp ;) That one already handled
> the rescan long ago. But I think it's a bit outdated at the
> moment, I haven't touched it for month. Looks like I need to
> bring it back to live.

I take it you are not impressed with my proposal? Care to explain why not?

/ac

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