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From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pciehp dont enable slot unless forced
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:13:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080317141341.1efebb7b@appleyard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47DECEC7.6070005@rtr.ca>

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:04:23 -0400
Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:

> This fixes a 2.6.25 regression reported by Alex Chiang.
> 
> Invoke pciehp_enable_slot() at startup only when pciehp_force=1.
> Some HP equipment apparently cannot cope with it otherwise.
> 
> This restores the (previously working) 2.6.24 behaviour here,
> while allowing machines that need a kick to use pciehp_force=1.
> 
> This was the original design back in October 2007,
> but Kristen suggested we try without it first:
> 
>    Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>    >I think it would be ok to try allowing the slot to be enabled
>    >when not using pciehp_force mode.  We can wrap it later if it
>    >proves to break things
> 
> This ended up breaking one of Alex's setups,
> so it's time to put the wrapper back in now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
> Acked-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
> ---
> 
> --- old/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c	2008-03-12
> 13:21:46.000000000 -0400 +++
> linux/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c	2008-03-12
> 13:23:54.000000000 -0400 @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ t_slot =
> pciehp_find_slot(ctrl, ctrl->slot_device_offset); 
>  	t_slot->hpc_ops->get_adapter_status(t_slot, &value); /*
> Check if slot is occupied */
> -	if (value) {
> +	if (value && pciehp_force) {
>  		rc = pciehp_enable_slot(t_slot);
>  		if (rc)	/* -ENODEV: shouldn't happen, but
> deal with it */ value = 0;
> 

Acked-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-17 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-12  6:47 [regression] pciehp hang on hp ia64 rx6600 Alex Chiang
2008-03-12 17:12 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-12 17:34 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-17 19:53   ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-17 20:04     ` [PATCH] pciehp dont enable slot unless forced Mark Lord
2008-03-17 21:13       ` Kristen Carlson Accardi [this message]

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