Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

Greg KH
2005-02-11T21:50:37Z

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:37:31PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> 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?

Search linux-kernel for it. It's come up many times between me and
Rusty Russell. He's basically waiting for the hotplug scripts (or
whatever) to be fixed up enough to not need them anymore.

Do you have some other need for them?

thanks,

greg k-h