PERFORCE change 38917 for review

[Hiten Pandya]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:00:52AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: In message: <20031002022135.GA26666 at perrin.nxad.com>
:             Hiten Pandya <hmp at nxad.com> writes:
: : 	Does this also include PCI Hotplugging or is this going to be
: : 	a separate effort?
: 
: Yes and no.
: 
: We already have removable devices in the tree.  CardBus, PC Card, USB
: and Firewire.  Right now the drivers take liberties and chances and
: there are a number of ugly races that rear their ugly heads.  This is
: an effort to clean that up and make things totally safe in all the
: cases that we can think of, and to document those areas where we
: can't.
: 
: There's no specific plans on my part to implement the hot plug state
: transition and deal with it.  People have raised their hands in the
: past to work on it, but so far no one has made significant progress in
: public view.

	Hmm, I see your point of view.  Also, another problem with PCI
	Hotplug controllers is that most of them are proprietary, like
	for example, the IBM controllers.

	Regards,

-- 
Hiten Pandya
hmp at backplane.com