Re: Linux hot swap support

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

Cced back to lkml as I hate taking things off-line unless it's
necessary, archives are your friend.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 07:50:49AM -0400, Bloch, Jack wrote:
> Thanks for the response. In my driver init routine, I use the
> pci_module_init( ) to register my driver with the PCI subsystem. Is this
> enough?

No, that's enough to register your driver as a PCI driver.  I'm guessing
your pci hotplug controller looks like a PCI device?

> What exactly is the hotplug_core and or pcihpfs?

See drivers/hotplug/pci_hotplug.h for the interface that a pci hotplug
controller driver needs to interface with (specifcly the
pci_hp_register() and pci_hp_unregister() functions are what you need).

> Do I have to implement the pci_insert_device/pci_remove_device methods
> or does the kernel simply call the probe_one/remove_one which I
> specify during my initialization. 

I'm confused, are you talking about a normal PCI card driver, or a PCI
Hotplug controller driver?  What exactly does your driver do?  Does it
talk to a specific PCI card, or does it control power to PCI slots?

thanks,

greg k-h