Greg KH wrote: > 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. > >> I think such utility is necessary for system administrators and >> the hotplug event notification is useful for it. > > Nope, it's not necessary. > Do you mean utility doesn't need to handle hotplug events, or utility can handle events without notification mechanism? BTW, IIRC, PCI hotplug core used to have a event notification mechanism using sysfs_update_file(*) and some people (maybe including you) tried to utilize it in the userland ulitity ( pcihputil?). But it seems to have been given up. If you know about that, could you tell me what the problem was? (*) sysfs_update_file() had been removed from the kernel. Thanks, Kenji Kaneshige -- 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
