Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/rescan

[Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:40:01 -0600 Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:
> 
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
> > +static DEFINE_MUTEX(pci_remove_rescan_mutex);
> > +static ssize_t bus_rescan_store(struct bus_type *bus, const char *buf,
> > +				size_t count)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned long val;
> > +	struct pci_bus *b = NULL;
> > +
> > +	if (strict_strtoul(buf, 0, &val) < 0)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> > +		return -EPERM;
> > +
> > +	if (val) {
> > +		mutex_lock(&pci_remove_rescan_mutex);
> > +		while ((b = pci_find_next_bus(b)) != NULL)
> > +			pci_rescan_bus(b);
> > +		mutex_unlock(&pci_remove_rescan_mutex);
> > +	}
> > +	return count;
> > +}
> > +
> > +struct bus_attribute pci_bus_attrs[] = {
> > +	__ATTR(rescan, S_IWUSR, NULL, bus_rescan_store),
> > +	__ATTR_NULL
> > +};
> > +#endif
> 
> Why CONFIG_HOTPLUG rather than CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI (or similar)?

I first started out with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI but then all that
stuff got compiled out, and I couldn't figure out why at the
time.

I'll go back and try and figure out what's really going on. :-/

Thanks.

/ac