Re: Automatic load of PCI kernel modules [WAS: [RFT] Automatic load of USB kernel modules]

From: Robert Millan <rmh_at_debian.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:33:18 +0200
2011/6/26 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky_at_c2i.net>:
> Hi,
>
> I see that a lot of PCI device drivers use code to check their ID's.
>
> [...]

I seem to recall devd doesn't process PCI because it is event-driven and
there are no "events" associated with PCI cards.

Perhaps it could be modified to scan for PCI cards via libpci on initialization
and generate "fake" events for them?

-- 
Robert Millan
Received on Sun Jun 26 2011 - 08:33:19 UTC

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