Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver

Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-01T14:43:30Z

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:25:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> What is the guarantee that the names of these slots are correct and do
> not happen to be the same as the hotpluggable ones?

That would be a bug -- and yes, bugs happen, and we have to deal with
them.

> Why show this information on machines that can not do anything with
> these slots at all? Will that not just confuse people?

Only for people who think that /sys/bus/pci/slots/ is for hotpluggable
slots only. There is plenty of useful information available for slots
that aren't hotpluggable (eg bus address, speed, width, error status).

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