Re: userland hotplug tools

[Linda Xie <lxiep@us.ibm.com>]

Linas Vepstas wrote:

>
>Either the 'control' subdirectory is in the wrong spot, or the tool
>should be changed to ignore it.  Greg?
>
>  
>
>>BTW, I downloaded 0.5 version src of the tool, modified man.c to use 
>>/sys/bus/pci/slots instead of /sys/bus/pci/hotplug_slots, modified 
>>    
>>
>
>Maybe the ppc64 code uses the wrong name here?  All the arches should use
>the same name, and if 'hotplug_slots' is the 'official' name, then the
>ppc64 code should change to use that name.
>  
>
/sys/bus/pci/slots is the official directory name of PHP slots (0.5 
might not
be the latest version).

Greg, do you have a later version of the tool ?

>>I am thinking about creating a GUI (based on your tool) that can be used 
>>on pSeries to do PHP add/remove/replace a PCI adapter. One thing I'd 
>>like to do is  to integrate our php tool (drslot_chrp_pci) into the GUI. 
>>    
>>
>
>Ugh.  My gut reaction is to obsolete the drslot_chrp_pci tools, and
>replace them by generic tools that would work on all arches. 
>
>--linas
>  
>
I think  you misunderstood what I  meant by saying "integrate". What I 
was trying to say is to create a gui that supports the same 
functionalities that drslot_chrp_pci provides. It doesn't necessarily 
mean that the gui needs to do "isolate", "config-connector" ... platfom 
specific stuff. If we can move some functions of drslot_chrp_pci into 
the kernel, It would be possible to  create a generic php tool that 
would work on pSeries and all other arches. At this point, I don't think 
that is the case, because the src of drslot_chrp_pci isn't open src yet.


Thanks,

Linda





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