From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Raghavendra Koushik <raghavendra.koushik@wipro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot swap support in linux?
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 06:46:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020102064610.J27118@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16LLva-0008AG-00@the-village.bc.nu> <005501c19384$d7fca730$5408720a@M3NOR67026>
In-Reply-To: <005501c19384$d7fca730$5408720a@M3NOR67026>
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:28:50PM +0530, Raghavendra Koushik wrote:
> few more questions pertaining to hot swap..
> 1. how exactly do I build my linux kernel with hotswap support. When I do
> 'make xconfig' (for linux 2.4.4 kernel) I don't see a hotplug option.
The PCI Hotplug code is not in the 2.4.4 kernel. It went in around
2.4.16 or so.
> 2. If I write my driver according to the new way of writing PCI drivers for
> ethernet cards i.e using MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE et al, is it enough
> to make my driver hot pluggable.
Yes.
> 3. Does the NIC need to provide any particular h/w support to make it
> hotpluggable.
No. The pci hotplug stuff is handled by a separate controller that
handles the initialization and shutdown of the individual PCI cards.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-02 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-01 4:30 Hot swap support in linux? Raghavendra Koushik
2002-01-01 10:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-02 11:58 ` Raghavendra Koushik
2002-01-02 14:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
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