My card includes a PCIe Switch. My coordinators told me that a solution for hotplug (remove/insert board without shutting down the system) could be the PCIe Port Bus Driver Model using also pciehp.ko already installed in Linux System. Paulo. > Why do you want to use the "Port Bus Driver Model"? That is only > intended for the ports in PCIe switches. Does your card include a > switch with non-standard services? > If your driver is specifically for some new switch functionality, you > might want to make it a port service driver. But if this is a PCIe > endpoint device, then you should make it a plain old PCI driver with > pci_register_driver(). > Bjorn >> Our driver has been modified in order to be compliant to a service >> driver as described in the HowTo Documentation. >> >> Using the file pcieport_if.h there were some structs that become >> obsolete namely the pci_port_service_id. >> >> 1) How can we provide the board ids with the pci_port_service_id >> struct removed? >> I'm using the old method struct pci_device_id >> >> 2) How can we point to the old pci_dev pointer in our functions once >> the arguments for probe(), remove() now are pcie_device struct? I'm using >> the port item in the struct pcie_device. >> >> 3) After changes at insmod time my board appears in the /proc/devices >> but my devices and sub-devices never appear in the /dev directory >> making me wonder that something is missing in my class_create() and >> device_create() function... >> >> 4) Are functions resume() and suspend() relevant for the hot-plug >> process? At the moment these functions only return -ENOSYS >> >> My Purpose: At the moment i'm only interest in modifying the Linux >> Device Driver for the board using the PCIe HotPlug Port Bus Driver >> Model (porting it to a Service Driver), detect the board and create >> the devices and sub-devices in the /dev directory as it used to do. >> I think there is only something missing but I dont know what. >> >> NOTE: Some aditional information: >> My _init() and _exit() functions are calling >> pcie_port_service_register() and pcie_port_service_unregister(), >> respectively. >> >> Thanks in Advance, >> Paulo (University PhD Student) >> -- >> 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 > -- 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
