On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:23:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:01:54PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: > > On Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 09:01:44AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > It's not only pci, but all types of busses need this kind of "coldplug" > > > functionality. And yes, I have plans to provide that functionality in > > > this package too. > > > > > > In fact, if anyone looking to contribute some well defined and easy to > > > test code... :) > > > > The pcimodules patch to pciutils does this sortof coldplug device > > scanning for pci devices: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/pciutils/pciutils-2.1.11-pcimodules-1.patch > > Yes, but that uses the modules.pcimap files, which we want to get rid of > someday. It also uses the /proc/pci interface instead of sysfs, so it > probably doesn't handle machines with pci domains very well...
Could you give pointers to the "get rid of modules.pcimap" discussion? Thanks. Erik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
