From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Ionescu Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:49:16 +0000 Subject: Re: unclean yanking out of device? Message-Id: <1074124155.4692.15.camel@t40> List-Id: References: <20040114160002.G57254@forte.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20040114160002.G57254@forte.austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi Linas, I don't think you can do this to an ordinary PCI card. But you may be doing this to a PCI express card (which has a serial bus, and is hot swappable). This is if I understood right the specs of PCI express. You can try to find out if is true or not. On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 01:08, linas@austin.ibm.com wrote: > Let me rephrase: I want to make 'appropriate' changes to the 2.6/2.7 > kernel, and some selected device drivers, so that a sysadmin can > stupidly yank out an *ordinary* PCI card (not a pcmcia) without doing > an orderly shutdown in advance. > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel