Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:09:35 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: Is there a user space pci rescan method? |
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:16:09PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote: > My point was, I load dummyphp with showunused=0 and only get dirs for the > slots with devices in them. Now I decide to put a network card (or whatever > I have to spare) in an empty slot, hope that the system doesn't reboot > immediately, and voila I don't have any /sys/bus/pci/slots dir to enable > the slot and have to reboot nevertheless. Or does the pci system a rescan > if I reinsert the module?
That is DANGEROUS and WILL DESTROY YOUR SYSTEM. Under no circumstances should we be encouraging people to do that.
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