Re: PCI device search.

Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:51:00 +0200


On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 04:15:54PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > I'd say 1. If a device is hotpluggable or not does not matter. For
> > 2.5, the boot process will be able to load modules for all PCI
> > devices seen in the system. In order for that to happen, they need to
> > use the MODULE_DEVICE structure and the 2.4 pci driver subsystem.
>
> I'd say 1.5. :) For the "newer hardware" consider using the PCI host
> bridge or ISA bridge for your "container" PCI device.

You mean putting PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_PCI as pattern in the pci
search table, yes ?

Thanks.

Stelian.

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