Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:04:40 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fixup warning for acenic |
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:47:49AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > be. I have been reluctant to change the driver over to the new hotplug > scheme since in the past there has been a significant number of AceNIC > users running on older kernels which do not have the hotplug > infrastructure (2.4.9 etc). On the other hand I don't remember hearing > from a single person who wanted to use AceNIC in a hotplug > environment.
2.4.9 of course has the newstyle pci interface! And actual hotplug PCI support also is in all today singnificant 2.4.9 forks (RH..).
There's even some shim to emulate the pci_driver style interface on 2.2.
Anyway, this table has another use, it's used by userland ools like installers for selecting the right driver for a given pci device. So even if it seems unused from kernelspace it has a use.
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