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Re: [PATCH] switch sdla to initcalls

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] switch sdla to initcalls
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 10:25:12 +0200
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20030521081938.GD22869@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from ak@xxxxxxx on Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:19:39AM +0200
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On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:11:26AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Wow, on driver that had it's dirt fingers in both Space.c and setup.c :)
> 
> Are you sure this won't change probe order? The normal reason
> to keep calls in Space.c is that they're ISA or other non discoverable 
> devices and require a specific ISA probe order, otherwise bad things
> happen at boot.
> 
> The card appears to be non PCI.

Yes, it's a ISA device.  But it has the sdla%d namespace for it's own
and support only a single card anyway.  There's not much chance of
changing any probe order here.


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