> The reason I'm asking is because, if you're looking to get a > uevent emitted when the attention button is pressed or the MRL is > opened, well... why do you need it? The operator knows he pressed > the button or opened the latch. > > So I'm confused as to why software would need to know about these > physical events. > I think the sysfs operation for hotplug is not very nice, so I want to make the hotplug management utility. The utility that I have in mind has abilities - to display slots' status (power, latch, ...) - to show and record hotplug event log - to perform hotplug operations - to show hotplug procedure automatically when the attention button is pressed. and so on. I think the event notification is variously useful... Is it unnecessary? Taku Izumi -- 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
