Linux Kernel 2.4 Useful Patches

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dummyphp : Dummy PCI Hotplug driver

If you have no PCI hotplug slots you can simulate the hotplug events with this driver. After installing and mounting pcihpfs somewhere you can "echo 0 >" to the slot file to remove a given PCI device from the kernel. "echo 1 >" will bring it back again. If someone is testing if a driver is hotplug-capable this is really useful.

Description:Dummy PCI Hotplug driver
Author(s):Rolf Eike Beer
Abstract:If you have no PCI hotplug slots you can simulate the hotplug events with this driver. After installing and mounting pcihpfs somewhere you can "echo 0 >" to the slot file to remove a given PCI device from the kernel. "echo 1 >" will bring it back again. If someone is testing if a driver is hotplug-capable this is really useful.

Notes

I'm not aware of any problems at the moment but I'm not using 2.4 for a long time now. So you should tag it experimental.
Eike

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