On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 16:34, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
What happen if a device is listed as a static device in the config file but does not actually exist in the physical system ?
Ollie
Li-Ta Lo ollie@lanl.gov writes:
What happen if a device is listed as a static device in the config file but does not actually exist in the physical system ?
The device won't go away. But it can legitimately show up as a disabled device in the device tree.
I'm not certain when you would want to report a device statically that may or may not be there.
Regardless showing up as disabled is effectively gone so it should not be a real limitation.
Eric
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 16:52, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
That happens for the processor. We list two cpus in current k8 mainboard config files. But if there is only one cpu install, we will have a lot of "absent" devices.
Ollie
Li-Ta Lo ollie@lanl.gov writes:
Well we will have an absent bus. But everything should work properly. It would not hurt to test it and make certain though. It works in principle, and should be easy to fix if the practice does not match.
Eric
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 21:45, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
On thing I am worry about is there are some code calling the "device driver" no matter if the device really exist. One example is the pci_scan_bus() which calls the enable_dev() when it found the device on the list of "static->dynamic" devices. What if the enable_dev() does something nasty and lock the machine ?
Ollie