On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:56:44AM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote: > * Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:29:11PM +0900, Taku Izumi wrote: > > > Hi Greg, Alex > > > > > > >>> This patchset adds an uevent framework to pci_hotplug. > > > >> Why? > > > >> > > > >> What is this needed for? > > > >> > > > >> Who is going to use this? > > > > > > > > > Now there is no hotplug management utility as far as I know. > > > > Not true, I know of at least 2 for PCI, one opensource and one not. > > What are their names? pciehpview is the opensource one. The closed source one I don't know the "real" name, it's part of a much larger management system from some big 3 letter company. > Wouldn't they like to receive those uevents? The opensource one works just fine without them :) It would be a lot of work to add support for them, support that I doubt the original author would do as they have pretty much abandoned the codebase from what I can tell. I have no idea what the closed source one does, but odds are it can't be changed at this late time to use uevents, as it's been shipping for years. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
