From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rajesh Shah Subject: Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: ACPI problem with PCI Express Native Hot-plug driver Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:14:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20051003111441.C14857@unix-os.sc.intel.com> References: <1125683188.13185.5.camel@whizzy> <20050930132440.C28328@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Reply-To: Rajesh Shah Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from rajat.noida.india@gmail.com on Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:07:26PM +0900 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Rajat Jain Cc: acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dkumar@noida.hcltech.com, sanjayku@noida.hcltech.com List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:07:26PM +0900, Rajat Jain wrote: > Thanks for the insight. But my doubt is that the PCI Express devices > down the hot-pluggable slots are working fine. i.e. if we forget about > the hot-plugging / unplugging, the bridges and devices are working > fine, even with ACPI enabled. > > So is the presence of bridges in ACPI namespace required only for > hot-plugging / unplugging and not for normal operation? > Yes, that's correct. The PCI core will correctly scan PCI bridges independent of their presence in the acpi namespace. PS: trimming the cc list a bit, as I'm getting rejects due to too many recipients. pcihp-discuss is the correct list for pciehp related questions. Rajesh