Jan Dittmer wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
>>Please just add the "rescan" support to fakephp, and everyone will be
>>happy...
> 
> 
> Well, I started to work on this for fun. What I currently have is a
> stand-alone module which rescans the pci bus on insert and enables
> previously disabled devices. This works (at least with my ieee1394 port).
> Problem is, that fakephp does not get notified about this new pci device
> and no new file is created in /sys/bus/pci/slots. So I'm going to add
> this rescan functionality directly to fakephp.
> Question is: where? My current idea is a fake hotplug slot "rescan" in
> /sys/bus/pci/slots , where you can write "1" into the "power" attribute.
> FWIW I've attached the standalone module and a kernel patch which rips
> out the pci_bus_add_device functionality from pci_bus_add_devices.

Well, here is a quick & dirty hack, which adds this function to
enable_slot in fakephp. So if you write "1" in the power attribute of
any slot, the whole bus gets rescanned (you still need the
pci_bus_add_device.patch from the previous mail).

Thanks,

Jan