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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI Hot Plug Operation
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 15:40:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-102044426822739@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-102044288121120@msgid-missing>

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:33:45PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> On Friday 03 May 2002 17:16, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Do I need to install a driver for my card to make the kernel aware of a
> > > possible hot pluggable device?
> >
> > PCI Hotplug only works if you have a PCI Hotplug controller on your
> > motherboard.  This is usually only on high end servers or cPCI machines.
> > Do you have such a machine?
> >
> > If not, you need to manually load the kernel module for your pci device,
> > sorry, as there are no "hotplug" pci events able to be generated.
> I think most mb will fry if you insert a pci device while they are on...

Very true, I didn't say for him to do this :)

greg k-h

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-03 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-03 15:16 PCI Hot Plug Operation Greg KH
2002-05-03 15:40 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-05-03 16:00 ` Bill Bruce
2002-05-03 16:53 ` Greg KH
2002-05-03 17:48 ` Stephen Williams
2002-05-04  8:33 ` Paul Hedderly
2002-05-04  8:57 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-06 16:32 ` Greg KH
2002-05-06 17:16 ` David Brownell

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