Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 9 May 2007 11:52:59 -0700 (PDT),
david@lang.hm wrote:

> this sounds like something that you want to load the driver module for 
> when you want to use it and unload the driver module when you are done.

A common case is that you only want to use some of all your devices of
a certain model. (My view may be strongly influenced by the s390
perspective, where we only have a quite limited amount of different
models and device drivers. In the highly diverse PC world, module
load/unload may indeed be the better way, since it doesn't require
additional work.)

> if you want to make a seperate enable/disable function I think it would 
> probably be more appropriate to use the power management functions.

It might. (s390 doesn't currently have power management.)
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