From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 15:40:04 +0000 Subject: Re: PCI Hot Plug Operation Message-Id: 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 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 _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: bandwidth@sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ 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