From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:23:23 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release Message-Id: <20050211192323.GA19787@suse.de> List-Id: References: <20050211004033.GA26624@suse.de> <20050211031823.GE29375@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <1108104417.32129.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200502111719.23163.christian@borntraeger.net> <20050211170144.GA16074@suse.de> <20050211190153.GA8110@codepoet.org> In-Reply-To: <20050211190153.GA8110@codepoet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: andersen@codepoet.org, Christian Borntr?ger , Bill Nottingham , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:01:54PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 09:01:44AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > It's not only pci, but all types of busses need this kind of "coldplug" > > functionality. And yes, I have plans to provide that functionality in > > this package too. > > > > In fact, if anyone looking to contribute some well defined and easy to > > test code... :) > > The pcimodules patch to pciutils does this sortof coldplug device > scanning for pci devices: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/pciutils/pciutils-2.1.11-pcimodules-1.patch Yes, but that uses the modules.pcimap files, which we want to get rid of someday. It also uses the /proc/pci interface instead of sysfs, so it probably doesn't handle machines with pci domains very well... thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ 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