Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:44:13 -0800 | | From | Ian Eure <> | | Subject | Re: Hot Swappable Cards Insertion and Removal Detection. |
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G Jalaja Devi wrote: > > How LINUX notifies the device driver when it detects a recently plugged > in PCI card? > I don't know if there is any PCI hot-swapping stuff in the kernel; I suspect not however. I have successfully hot-swapped ISA network/sound boards before, but hot-swapping hardware that does not explicitly support it (eg RAID arrays) is a Bad Thing(tm). If you feel like it though, make sure all the kernel drivers for your devive(s) are compiled as modules. Remove the drivers, for eg a NE2000 with ``ifconfig ethN down ; rmmod ne ; rmmod 8390''. You may now remove the card without the kernel complaining about the hardware it was using disappearing for no reason - a very _bad_ thing.
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