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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, kristen.c.accardi@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option to passively listen for PCIE hotplug events
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:30:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081103223026.GA9118@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081103142346.05d93b0d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:23:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> However, what worries me a bit is how our users are to understand
> whether they need to use this option, how to use it, etc.  Does it
> require too much knowledge of PCIE internals to be very useful?  Is
> there any way in which we can make it more user-friendly?

I'd lean towards this being the default behaviour in the long run, but 
right now there's not a great deal of understanding of what the failure 
cases may be. We're planning to give it a go in Fedora and see what the 
feedback from that is.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-29 20:09 [PATCH] Add option to passively listen for PCIE hotplug events Matthew Garrett
2008-11-01 17:51 ` Grant Grundler
2008-11-03 13:26   ` [PATCH v2] " Matthew Garrett
2008-11-03 13:43     ` Fabio Comolli
2008-11-03 13:46       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-14 16:56     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-11-14 17:00       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-03 22:23 ` [PATCH] " Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 22:30   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-11-04  1:58 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-11-04  2:07   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-04  2:29     ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-11-04  2:38       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-04  3:11         ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-11-04  5:02     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-04  5:46       ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-11-04 12:45         ` Matthew Garrett

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