On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Adam J. Richter wrote:
> > I believe that there are motherboards that use a chipset from
> > Compaq that allows hot plugging and unplugging of ordinary PCI cards,
> > supported by drivers in linux-2.5.43/drivers/hotplug/cpq*.[ch]. At a
> > trade show, I saw a demo of a motherboard with such a capability (not
> > running Linux, but I think from Compaq).
>
>
> You are correct that all PCI cards are now hotpluggable.
>
> My position is that _my_ driver will not be converted to be hotpluggable
> until someone actually does so. Until such a time, I prefer the space
> savings that keeping it non-hotplug-able provides.
If I read the original post correctly, you save a LOT of space, becasue
the driver won't link without the patch. Sorry if I misread that, and it's
desirable to avoid such a dependency, but if it's hack or forget, expect
hack.
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