Bug#454493: Display PCI slot for nics, if available

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:09:38PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > [1] Of course, acpiphp has module dependencies, and if these aren't
> >     cleaned up after a failed load, memory will still be lost to those
> >     modules
> 
> It means that we'd need to find a way to get those dependencies and
> walk throught them removing the unused ones.

Yeah. Options here would be:
 1) big hammer - write a modprobe wrapper that cleans
    unused/unloadable modules after every load
 2) smaller hammer - write a modprobe wrapper that remembers what was
    loaded before and, on failure, unloads all newly added, unused,
    unloadable modules
 3) surgical hammer - whatever ends up loading acpihpi knows that, on
    failure, dock and pci_hotplug should be removed (if unused)

fyi, the dependencies loaded, and left unused, eat 9476 (dock) and
28600 (pci_hotplug) bytes.

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dann frazier