Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Sep 1999 04:36:08 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Update for the serial driver. |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 02:18:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > "struct pci_dev" contains the name of the PCI device ("dev->name", > > surprise, surprise), and it has been copied there from __initdata > > information that is discarded after bootup so that we don't waste > > run-time memory on keeping all the PCI names around when they > > aren't needed (ie only the devices that were found have the name). > > How will this work with hotplug PCI? Will we not then need to keep > the whole table around?
If you are doing hotplug you will most likely have a userspace daemon, so it can assist by proving PCI id->name info in this case.
Jeff
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