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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:48:39 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Daheriya, Adarsh" <Adarsh.Daheriya@fci.com>
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Subject: Re: Hot Swap - Resource Allocation Problem.
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:18:04PM +0530, Daheriya, Adarsh wrote:
> > hi Scott,
> > 
> > i am using your hot swap driver for one of our boards here. I have
> > back-ported the driver to 2.4.18 kernel.

For 2.4, I think that Scott had a patch that would require the user to
reserve pci resources at boot time to solve this problem.

See the linux pci hotplug devel mailing list archives for the patch and
a description of how to get this to work on 2.4.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h