RE: Hot PCI bus plugging

Jakma, Paul (Paul.Jakma@compaq.com)
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:48:12 -0000

> > I don't think you can rescan the bus, but what you can do
> is hot-replace a
> > card. ie If your nic breaks you could hot-swap it with an
> identical nic, and
> > insert the driver again.
>
> The Motorola code _does_ rescan the bus. RTFS.

i was reffering to hot-swapping pci with existing stock linux code. sorry
for the confusion. run-time rescanning would be the ideal of course.

-paul jakma

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