Re: PATCH: Update for the serial driver.
Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 02 Sep 1999 04:36:08 -0400
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 02:18:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > "struct pci_dev" contains the name of the PCI device ("dev->name",
> > surprise, surprise), and it has been copied there from __initdata
> > information that is discarded after bootup so that we don't waste
> > run-time memory on keeping all the PCI names around when they
> > aren't needed (ie only the devices that were found have the name).
>
> How will this work with hotplug PCI? Will we not then need to keep
> the whole table around?
If you are doing hotplug you will most likely have a userspace daemon,
so it can assist by proving PCI id->name info in this case.
Jeff
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