Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

Greg KH
2005-02-11T19:24:50Z

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...

thanks,

greg k-h