Re: [PATCH] pciehp: Add pciehp_surprise module option

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 03/20/13 07:02, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> We encountered a problem that on some HP machines the Realtek PCI-e
> card reader device appears only when you inserted a card before the
> cold boot.  While debugging, it turned out that the device is actually
> handled via PCI-e hotplug in some level.  The device sends a presence
> change notification, and pciehp receives it, but it's ignored because
> of lack of the hotplug surprise (PCI_EXP_SLTCAP_HPS) capability bit.
> Once when this check passes, everything starts working -- the device
> appears upon plugging the card properly.
> 
> There are a few other bug reports indicating the similar problems
> (e.g. on recent Dell laptops), and I guess the culprit is same.
> 
> This patch adds a new module option, pciehp_surprise, to pciehp as a
> workaround.  When pciehp_surprise=1 is given, pciehp handles the
> presence change as the device on/off as if PCI_EXP_SLTCAP_HPS is set.
> Unless it's set explicitly, there is no impact on the existing
> behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.h      | 3 ++-
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c
> index 7d72c5e..c3a574e 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c
> @@ -55,10 +56,12 @@ module_param(pciehp_debug, bool, 0644);
>  module_param(pciehp_poll_mode, bool, 0644);
>  module_param(pciehp_poll_time, int, 0644);
>  module_param(pciehp_force, bool, 0644);
> +module_param(pciehp_surprise, bool, 0644);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(pciehp_debug, "Debugging mode enabled or not");
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(pciehp_poll_mode, "Using polling mechanism for hot-plug events or not");
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(pciehp_poll_time, "Polling mechanism frequency, in seconds");
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(pciehp_force, "Force pciehp, even if OSHP is missing");
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(pciehp_surprise, "Force to set hotplug-surprise capability");


It appears that all of the pciehp options need to be documented,
preferably in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt .


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~Randy