From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 05:03:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 05:03:16 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:61202 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 05:03:04 -0500 Subject: Re: Hot swap support in linux? To: raghavendra.koushik@wipro.com (Raghavendra Koushik) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:13:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <008001c1927d$0f175840$5408720a@M3NOR67026> from "Raghavendra Koushik" at Jan 01, 2002 10:00:36 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Does the current linux kernel support hot swap feature for network interface > cards(NICs). I would be glad if any of you can provide me some pointers or > documentation regards the same... If your hardware supports it - yes. You'll need something like the compaq hotswap pci backplanes or of course simply use cardbus