On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As he said: drivers/pci/ Ok and which file in this I should start first to understand. > Basically: yes. But there are things like PCI hotplug ;) Ok :) but is that defined inside kernel I mean hotplugging if that is taken care by kernel then I want to read more code about this I checked drivers/pci/hotplug which file should I pick first. > I don't really get what your exact question is here. But basically: the > distros ship a ton of modules, they nearly build all possible modules and pack > them into their installer. Then the kernel will just autodetect which devices yes this part how does this "autodetect" happens this is what I want to know from engineering point of view. -- 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