Re: pci card detection by kernel

[Jiri Slaby]

S. Vishnu Priya napsal(a):
> 
> Dear All,
> 
>       I am new to this group. I was asked to write a device driver for a
> new pci card. My doubt is, Kernel will detect a new pci card which is
> attached to the system? Or how we can make the kernel to detect the new
> card which is newly attached? I am using kernel 2.6.11.12. Please
> suggest me regarding this.

See drivers/*, search for pci_driver -- driver, probe, remove, suspend, resume
and pci_device_id table.

regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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