From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:22:17 +0000 Subject: Re: Docking station / PCI hotplug Message-Id: <20040205172217.GE12546@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:36:37PM +0000, Martin Lucina wrote: > > I was wondering what the current state of hotplug support for Docking > Stations is -- http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/?selected=dock > mentions that PNPBIOS has support for sending 'dock' events to hotplug, > but I'm not seeing anything like this happening on my Toshiba Portege > 7220CTe. Of course it's entirely likely that Toshiba's PNPBIOS simply > does not send such events. Odds are your device needs special kernel code, like almost all other docking stations :( If you can get specs from Toshiba on what is needed to do, that would be a great first step. > I've noticed that the 2.6 kernel (I'm currently running 2.6.2) comes > with a "Fake PCI Hotplug Controller". This currently only supports > removing devices but looking at comments in the source could probably be > adapted to adding devices without too much work. Now, having only > recently started using 2.6.x, I'm not up to speed on how the new APIs > work, but what I'd like to see (and am prepared to implement, given time > and some guidance on where to look) is: > > 1. A sysfs-based (I presume) interface that allows me to > - remove PCI devices from the system That's already present with the fakephp driver. > - add them back again, fully re-initializing the PCI device > - rescan a PCI bus for new devices This needs to be added to the fakephp driver. Patches are appreciated to add this functionality to this driver. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ 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