From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>,
kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com, warthog19@eaglescrag.net,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
kristen.c.accardi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:25:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080301052542.GD19353@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080229002938.GE21420@ldl.fc.hp.com>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:29:38PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Detect all physical PCI slots as described by ACPI, and create
> entries in /sys/bus/pci/slots/.
>
> Not all physical slots are hotpluggable, and the acpiphp module
> does not detect them. Now we know the physical PCI geography of
> our system, without caring about hotplug.
What is the guarantee that the names of these slots are correct and do
not happen to be the same as the hotpluggable ones?
Why show this information on machines that can not do anything with
these slots at all? Will that not just confuse people?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-01 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 0:23 [PATCH 0/4, v7] PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects Alex Chiang
2008-02-29 0:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] Remove path attribute from sgi_hotplug Alex Chiang
2008-03-03 18:48 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-03 18:54 ` Prarit Bhargava
2008-03-05 0:19 ` Alex Chiang
2008-02-29 0:27 ` [PATCH 2/4] Construct one fakephp slot per pci slot Alex Chiang
2008-02-29 0:28 ` [PATCH 3/4] Introduce pci_slot Alex Chiang
2008-03-01 5:24 ` Greg KH
2008-03-03 20:56 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-04 5:58 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 23:30 ` [PATCH 3/4, v8] " Alex Chiang
2008-02-29 0:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver Alex Chiang
2008-03-01 5:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-03-01 14:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-04 5:49 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 18:18 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-04 19:30 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 20:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-04 20:12 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-03-04 23:09 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-05 1:11 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-05 20:20 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-05 20:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-06 2:07 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:10 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:13 ` [PATCH 3/(3+1)] " Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:17 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:19 ` [PATCH 4/(3+1)] Add quirks for " Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:28 ` [PATCH 4/4] " Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-11 16:56 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-12 5:51 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-12 4:08 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 18:04 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-03-11 19:14 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-12 11:33 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-13 3:24 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-14 2:16 ` Gary Hade
2008-03-14 5:34 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-18 20:49 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-12 10:50 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 23:34 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-03-12 12:59 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-04 22:58 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-04 23:15 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 23:46 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-01 5:12 ` [PATCH 0/4, v7] PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects Greg KH
2008-03-03 23:35 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-04 5:56 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-25 4:13 [PATCH 0/4, v11] " Alex Chiang
2008-03-25 4:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver Alex Chiang
2008-03-25 4:50 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-25 17:09 [PATCH 0/4, v12] PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects Alex Chiang
2008-03-25 17:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver Alex Chiang
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