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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:43:39 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCI devices drivers as LKMs 
Message-ID:  <199811102043.MAA00401@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:40:44 EST." <Pine.SUN.3.91.981110153953.6346B-100000@terra> 

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> I think I asked this before, and it was not possible, but am just 
> checking. Can a PCI driver be built as an LKM. Based on how PCI 
> configuration happens, I am not sure it could, but thought I would check.

There were some patches posted by Stefan Esser a little while back for 
this, but no, there's no standard way of doing it as you correctly 
intimate.

Ideally we will be shifting to dynamic registration of PCI drivers with 
the new bus model, and this will make things easier.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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