RE: /proc/pci unknown devices

Jones D (djones2@glam.ac.uk)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:06:31 +0100


> >Dan Hollis wrote:
> >> I thought we were trying to avoid M$-thinking, or is
> redmond starting to
> >> influence developers, "16kb here, 32kb there, it won't matter".
> >
> >32k of __initdata, _before_ it is compressed, is not a bad deal.
>
> If it is discarded after boot, what about hot-plug PCI ?

Addition/Removal of devices after the kernel has booted shouldn't be
an issue. At worst a daemon could be added to monitor this sort of
thing with the data tables held in userspace.
At best, pciutils could be extended. Though I am unfamiliar with
such devices, I don't think pciutils would even need any extra code
to identify recently added devices, as the bus is scanned every time
it is run.

regards,

Dave.

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