Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-02-11T21:37:55Z

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:23:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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...

Could you give pointers to the "get rid of modules.pcimap" discussion?

Thanks.
Erik