Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc5 1/1] : mv643xx_eth_pcidev - implements hotplug for the marvell gige functionality by probing the northbridge pci id.

From: Sven Luther <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:57:39 +0200

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:26:55PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I don't think this is really dependent on PPC_MULTIPLATFORM,
> > and the driver also supports 64460.
> 
> This is not a PCI driver so adding a device table is wrong.

Sure, please provide us with a patch to add hotplug support to those platform
drivers who are not pci :)

In the meantime, this is no worse than how this was done previously, namely
having discover match the northbridge pci id.

Friendly,

Sven Luther