* Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:29:11PM +0900, Taku Izumi wrote: > > Hi Greg, Alex > > > > >>> This patchset adds an uevent framework to pci_hotplug. > > >> Why? > > >> > > >> What is this needed for? > > >> > > >> Who is going to use this? > > > > > > Now there is no hotplug management utility as far as I know. > > Not true, I know of at least 2 for PCI, one opensource and one not. What are their names? Wouldn't they like to receive those uevents? > > I think such utility is necessary for system administrators and > > the hotplug event notification is useful for it. > > Nope, it's not necessary. Well... I'd like to hear more justification from Taku-san before slamming the door shut. He must have a good reason for why he wrote his patches; I just don't think that we've heard them yet. ;) Thanks. /ac -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
