From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Raghavendra Koushik <raghavendra.koushik@wipro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot swap support in linux?
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 06:46:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020102064610.J27118@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16LLva-0008AG-00@the-village.bc.nu> <005501c19384$d7fca730$5408720a@M3NOR67026>
In-Reply-To: <005501c19384$d7fca730$5408720a@M3NOR67026>
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:28:50PM +0530, Raghavendra Koushik wrote:
> few more questions pertaining to hot swap..
> 1. how exactly do I build my linux kernel with hotswap support. When I do
> 'make xconfig' (for linux 2.4.4 kernel) I don't see a hotplug option.
The PCI Hotplug code is not in the 2.4.4 kernel. It went in around
2.4.16 or so.
> 2. If I write my driver according to the new way of writing PCI drivers for
> ethernet cards i.e using MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE et al, is it enough
> to make my driver hot pluggable.
Yes.
> 3. Does the NIC need to provide any particular h/w support to make it
> hotpluggable.
No. The pci hotplug stuff is handled by a separate controller that
handles the initialization and shutdown of the individual PCI cards.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-02 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-01 4:30 Hot swap support in linux? Raghavendra Koushik
2002-01-01 10:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-02 11:58 ` Raghavendra Koushik
2002-01-02 14:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20020102064610.J27118@kroah.com \
--to=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=raghavendra.koushik@wipro.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.