Re: Is there a user space pci rescan method?

[Jan Dittmer <jdittmer@ppp0.net>]

Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Normally you will just remove and bring back one or two cards in the system 
> (e.g. your NIC or sound card, depending on xmms or irc being on top of your 
> priority list *g*). So from my point of view it's a good idea to keep the 
> slot dirs on remove so you can just go back in your command history and 
> replace 0 with 1 to get the device back. I don't see why bus structure or 
> whatever may ever change so rescanning the whole bus is IMHO a bit overkill.

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?

Thanks,

Jan