Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects

Greg KH
2007-11-13T21:37:31Z

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:31:08PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>:
> >
> > The only reported _SUN problems on Dell systems were on the
> > PE6800 and PE6850 systems, which we've fixed with an updated
> > BIOS several months ago. IIRC the values weren't always unique
> > which kind of defeated the purpose.
>
> FWIW, the ACPI 2.0 spec did not require uniqueness for _SUN.
> (although there is a strange table that refers to _SUN as the
> slot-unique ID (table 6-1 in spec v2.0b), the actual definition
> of _SUN does not mention uniqueness).

Does your code handle if these are not unique?

thanks,

greg k-h