From: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] what is writing to /sys/bus/pci/slot/<slot_no>/power really supposed to do?
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:43:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071001174340.GA10858@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071001100858.06919a1e.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:08:58AM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> Hi,
> I notice in acpiphp that the code path for powering down the slot
> via sysfs does not execute the _EJ0 method, but instead simply
> looks for _PS3 and of couse disables all the bridges and devices.
> I suppose this could be valid depending on your definition of what
> /sys/bus/pci/slots/<slot_no>/power should do.
>
> Is it intended to just power down the adapter that's in the slot,
> or is it intended to make the adapter in the slot able to be removed?
> If it's intended to make the adapter able to be removed, shouldn't
> we be calling _EJ0?
>
> As a comparison, in pciehp when the sysfs power file is written,
> we do actually go out and send the commands to the hotplug controller
> to physically power off the slot.
Kristen, This sounds a lot like the problem I was trying to address
with the "fix slot poweroff problem on systems without _PS3" patch
that I posted in June.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20070604232736.GA3239%40us.ibm.com&forum_name=pcihpd-discuss
It seems to be working fine on our systems.
Gary
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-01 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 17:08 what is writing to /sys/bus/pci/slot/<slot_no>/power really supposed to do? Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-01 17:19 ` Greg KH
2007-10-01 17:35 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-01 17:46 ` [Pcihpd-discuss] " Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-01 17:43 ` Gary Hade [this message]
2007-10-01 17:50 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-01 18:33 ` Gary Hade
2007-10-01 18:39 ` Gary Hade
2007-10-01 18:43 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
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