RE: Patch: 2.5.45 PCI Fixups for PCI HotPlug

Lee, Jung-Ik (jung-ik.lee@intel.com)
Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:06:28 -0800


> Greg KH wrote:
> >Hm, in looking at this, I know the majority of people who want
> >CONFIG_HOTPLUG probably do not run with CONFIG_PCI_HOTPLUG as the
> >hardware's still quite rare. To force those people to keep
> around all
> >of the PCI quirks functions and tables after init happens, is a bit
> >cruel. I wonder if it's time to start having different subsystems
> >modify __devinit depending on their config variables.
>
> Are there PCI bridge cards that use all of those? For
> example, I thought that Triton was a series of Intel motherboard
> chipsets for 586 processors. Perhaps you only need to keep a
> few of those routines.
>
> Jung-Ik: perhaps you could to an lspci and an "lspci -n" on
> your machine when the bridge card is plugged in, which should provide
> enough information to determine which routines you really need to
> keep.

That sounds a quick fix for now but Greg's __pci_devinit seems to be the
right solution.

thanks,
J.I.
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