Subject: Re: looking for devices on PCI bus
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/01/2001 16:27:56
I need this for my docking station. :-)

-Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Lyle" <mlyle@recourse.net>
To: "Wiz" <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>; <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: looking for devices on PCI bus


> 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