-----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Greg KH >Now if you have a machine that has a PCI Hotplug controller, that would >be a totally different issue, but you don't say that... The PCI hotplug spec talks about the necessity of a user application to inform the hotplug subsytem about the proposed insertion/removal of a PCI device so that the corresponding slot can be powered off and other necessary actions can be taken for the safe insertion/removal of the device. Is the same implemented in Linux? I have worked with hotplug devices like cardbus where the Cardbus-PCI bridge will inform the processor about the insertion/removal of a device by means of an interrupt but here I am talking about a typical PCI device. In this case for Linux, how does the user talk to the hotplug subsystem about device insertion or removal? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
