It'd also be nice to handle hotplug PCI nicely at the same time..

e.g. there should be a facility to register a "listener" for a given
PCI type..  and first all matching existing devices would call the handler
callback, and then any device inserted would trigger it..

preferably one would do this without re-autoprobing-- e.g. keep hash
tables of what hardware is in the system.

Mike

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:46:25PM +0200, Wiz wrote:
> In article <20010501193321.B475@antioche.eu.org> you wrote:
> > there is at last 2 situations where we want to look for PCI devices of a
> > given type in the system. The first one is for LKM device driver (we
> > need to find the devices we can drive at lkm load time), the second is for
> > pciide (where I need to find which pcib we have to know the exact type of
> > VIA IDE controller). For now the only way to do this would be to duplicate
> > part of pci.c in various drivers which need it, so I think it's time to come
> > with a generic way of doing this.
> 
> I think we also want this for some of the X servers.
> These also want to know the address space of the cards, of course
> -- perhaps you could provide some functions for that, too? :)
> 
> Or should this be somehow done by the callback() function?
> 
> Bye,
>  Thomas
> 
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> Thomas Klausner - wiz@danbala.tuwien.ac.at
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