From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linas Vepstas Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:11:51 +0000 Subject: Re: Hotplug SIG Message-Id: <20040823221151.GZ14002@austin.ibm.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 Hi, > 1. Documentation and more documentation. Yes, please. > 2. Constant regression testing. As not a lot of people have hardware > that supports various hotplug and they are not enabled by default new > features tend to break them. Yes. I am not aware of any single, unified, architecture-independent API or user-space tools for performing PCI hotplug. If they do exist, then my ignorance can be blamed on bad documentation. -- There's a command-line tool I use on powerpc that does things like blink LED's in order to better identify the PCI slot, so that you don't actually remove the wrong card. A generic tool that did this for all arches would be nice. -- Some people like to "echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/something" to turn power on and off for a given PCI slot, but its not obvious that this is how all the various arches work; nor is it obvious how to match up a given 'geographical' slot location to a given /sys/whatever entry. So unifying all this would be nice. Linas. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ 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