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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Patrick Mochel wrote: > One of the ideas that I've kicked around with some people here and the > ACPI guys is the notion of trigger device enumeration from userspace > completely.>> During the initramfs stage, a program (say devmgr) figures out what type > of system you have, where the PCI buses are, etc. It tells the kernel this > information, which then probes for existence, then loads drivers. Sounds remarkably like the work that Greg has been doing with hotplug support. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk| SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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