From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Jan Dittmer <jdittmer@ppp0.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Hotplug List <pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: Is there a user space pci rescan method?
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:18:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409241518.44496@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040924130935.GB16153@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Am Freitag, 24. September 2004 15:09 schrieb Matthew Wilcox:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:16:09PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> > My point was, I load dummyphp with showunused=0 and only get dirs for the
> > slots with devices in them. Now I decide to put a network card (or
> > whatever I have to spare) in an empty slot, hope that the system doesn't
> > reboot immediately, and voila I don't have any /sys/bus/pci/slots dir to
> > enable the slot and have to reboot nevertheless. Or does the pci system a
> > rescan if I reinsert the module?
>
> That is DANGEROUS and WILL DESTROY YOUR SYSTEM. Under no circumstances
> should we be encouraging people to do that.
Yes, and that's why there a big comments as well in the Kconfig help as well
as in the source of both dummyphp and fakephp.
Eike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-24 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-22 22:00 Is there a user space pci rescan method? Dave Aubin
2004-09-22 23:58 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-09-23 0:26 ` Greg KH
2004-09-23 15:04 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-09-23 16:49 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2004-09-23 16:53 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-09-23 17:05 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2004-09-24 10:41 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2004-09-24 11:42 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-09-24 12:12 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2004-09-24 12:16 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-09-24 12:32 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2004-09-24 14:55 ` Greg KH
2004-09-27 9:14 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2004-10-10 0:13 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-10-10 0:59 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-10-10 13:45 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-10-30 4:16 ` Greg KH
2004-10-31 23:59 ` [patch 1/2] fakephp: introduce pci_bus_add_device Jan Dittmer
2004-11-01 9:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-02 22:51 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-11-11 23:47 ` Greg KH
2004-11-12 0:13 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-11-12 18:59 ` Greg KH
2004-10-31 23:59 ` [patch 2/2] fakephp: add pci bus rescan ability Jan Dittmer
2004-11-12 18:59 ` Greg KH
2004-09-24 13:09 ` [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: Is there a user space pci rescan method? Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-24 13:18 ` Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
2004-09-24 12:40 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-09-24 12:59 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2004-09-23 23:31 ` Greg KH
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