On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:36:38AM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote: > 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? >From what I remember, it was handled without a notification mechanism, but that was years ago. > 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? Sorry, I really don't remember. 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
