Re: [PATCH] Add option to passively listen for PCIE hotplug events

Matthew Garrett
2008-11-03T22:30:41Z

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:23:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> However, what worries me a bit is how our users are to understand
> whether they need to use this option, how to use it, etc. Does it
> require too much knowledge of PCIE internals to be very useful? Is
> there any way in which we can make it more user-friendly?

I'd lean towards this being the default behaviour in the long run, but
right now there's not a great deal of understanding of what the failure
cases may be. We're planning to give it a go in Fedora and see what the
feedback from that is.