From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix PCIe hotplug for Dell notebook ExpressCard slots
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:19:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <471538D4.1020001@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071016220354.GA22828@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:57:03PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>> Fix PCIe Hotplug so that it works with ExpressCard slots on Dell notebooks
>> in conjunction with modparam of pciehp_force=1.
>>
>> The PCIe Hotplug driver has two shortcomings when used on Dell notebooks
>> which lack ACPI BIOS support for PCIe hotplug:
>
> Wait, Dell explicitly says that pci hotplug of express cards is not
> supported and is broken on these laptops. This is because the version
> of Windows they support on these machines also does not support
> hotplugging these devices.
>
> The current code works just fine on hardware that actually supports this
> kind of functionality, as per the proper specs and requirements for this
> feature.
>
> So why try to go through these gyrations for hardware that is explicitly
> broken?
Because it is NOT broken. It works perfectly.
There's just a couple of issues in the existing *working* Linux driver
that need fixing, that's all.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 13:46 PCIe Hotplug: NFG unless I boot with card already inserted Mark Lord
2007-10-16 15:21 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-16 15:46 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-16 18:39 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-16 18:43 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-16 18:57 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-16 18:59 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-16 19:31 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-16 19:51 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-16 20:07 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-16 20:39 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-16 21:01 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-16 22:33 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-16 21:41 ` [Pcihpd-discuss] " Greg KH
2007-10-16 21:57 ` [PATCH] Fix PCIe hotplug for Dell notebook ExpressCard slots Mark Lord
2007-10-16 22:03 ` Greg KH
2007-10-16 22:19 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-10-16 22:41 ` [Pcihpd-discuss] " Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-16 22:04 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-16 22:17 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-17 1:53 ` [PATCH 0/4] Fix PCIe hotplug for non-ACPI ExpressCard slots (version 2) Mark Lord
2007-10-17 1:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] " Mark Lord
2007-10-17 1:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] " Mark Lord
2007-10-17 1:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] " Mark Lord
2007-10-17 1:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] " Mark Lord
2007-10-18 0:01 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-18 2:28 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-17 3:31 ` [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 2/4] " Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-17 23:54 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-18 2:25 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-17 3:29 ` [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/4] " Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-17 13:09 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-17 14:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-17 14:33 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-17 22:02 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Andrew Morton
2007-10-17 22:59 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-17 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-16 20:29 ` PCIe Hotplug: NFG unless I boot with card already inserted Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-16 20:41 ` Mark Lord
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