Re: PATCH: Update for the serial driver.

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:24:11 +1200


On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 02:18:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> "struct pci_dev" contains the name of the PCI device ("dev->name",
> surprise, surprise), and it has been copied there from __initdata
> information that is discarded after bootup so that we don't waste
> run-time memory on keeping all the PCI names around when they
> aren't needed (ie only the devices that were found have the name).

How will this work with hotplug PCI? Will we not then need to keep
the whole table around?

-cw

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