From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik van Konijnenburg Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:06:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release Message-Id: <20050211230657.B1635@banaan.localdomain> 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> <20050211192323.GA19787@suse.de> <20050211223731.A1635@banaan.localdomain> <20050211214957.GA22633@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050211214957.GA22633@suse.de>; from gregkh@suse.de on Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:49:57PM -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg KH Cc: 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 01:49:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:37:31PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:23:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > 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... > > > > Could you give pointers to the "get rid of modules.pcimap" discussion? > > Search linux-kernel for it. It's come up many times between me and > Rusty Russell. He's basically waiting for the hotplug scripts (or > whatever) to be fixed up enough to not need them anymore. > > Do you have some other need for them? Yep, I'm working on a proof of concept to show how modules.pcimap can be used to build a more reliable mkinitrd. The interesting part about modules.pcimap is that it can not only describe what's in the running kernel, but also what's in the kernel about to be installed. For an old version of the idea, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug(4294 Regards, Erik ------------------------------------------------------- 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