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    From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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    To: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ioc4: Driver rework

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    Brent Casavant wrote:
    > - The IOC4 chip implements multiple functions (serial, IDE, others not
    > yet implemented in the mainline kernel) but is not a multifunction
    > PCI device. In order to properly handle device addition and removal
    > as well as module insertion and deletion, an intermediary IOC4-specific
    > driver layer is needed to handle these operations cleanly.

    I disagree that a layer is needed.

    Just write a PCI driver that does the following in probe:

            register IDE
            register serial
            ...

    and undoes all that in remove.

    Device addition and removal work just fine with that scheme.

            Jeff

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