Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Samuelson <> | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 1999 03:46:44 -0500 (CDT) | Subject | Re: /proc/pci unknown devices |
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[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>] > Besides, the table doesn't need to be a large static ever growing > table, all you do is to copy the entries for the PCI devices you > found to a new list and delete the rest.
Certainly that works today, since we know all PCI devices at boot time. This will not be true forever. I believe this has been discussed before here; what was the verdict on "knowing" the names of hot-swap devices?
Maybe when a module for a hot-swap device loads (responding to a "modprobe -k pci-dev-fe1c-ee05" or whatever) it can augment the /proc/pci table with its own __initdata. (Who knows, by then maybe __initdata in a module will mean something.)
-- Peter Samuelson <sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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