Re: how is a device detected

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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.
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