Re: post 2.6.26 requires pciehp_slot_with_bus

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:18:53PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> I think that's fine (automatically creating duplicate devices with names to 
> differentiate them), but I think we should also try harder to avoid adding 
> duplicates.
> 
> In Pierre's case, and on my T61, there's only one actual hotplug slot 
> available, but the firmware creates duplicate physical slot numbers and sets 
> the HP_CAP bit on everything, both of which are obviously wrong (well I 
> suppose you could pop these chips off the board, but it's not very 
> practical).  However, afaict that "other" OS uses the _RMV method to 
> determine whether a given slot is actually hot pluggable.  On my T61 at 
> least, this seems to be accurate: only one of my EXP* objects has a _RMV 
> method.

I think you're getting distracted from the real problem we're trying to
solve here, the reason for introducing the pci_slot driver in the first
place: we want to have information on all slots, not just hotplug ones.

So while this is growing out of the hotplug system, we need to register
all slots, even ones without _RMV.

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