Re: /proc/pci unknown devices

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
26 Oct 1999 18:55:30 +0200


>>>>> "Theodore" == Theodore Y Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

Theodore> From: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) Date:
Theodore> 26 Oct 1999 10:52:55 +0200

> If it is discarded after boot, what about hot-plug PCI ?

Theodore> It's a good point, but we may end up wanting to use
Theodore> different mechanisms to deal with hot-plug devices versus
Theodore> devices detected on boot. Yes, it's best if as much of the
Theodore> code path is shared as possible, but there may be enough
Theodore> other differences with how we want to handle hot-plug PCI
Theodore> that this isn't an issue.

Actually, I came to think of this after posting to the list earlier
today. I take it that device drivers needs to be PCI hot-plug aware in
order to make them work in h-p environments? If this is the case, it
should be perfectly valid to require the h-p aware driver to keep the
PCI device info for it's device in the driver.

Jes

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