From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756312AbZBBRBU (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:01:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752685AbZBBRBK (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:01:10 -0500 Received: from g1t0028.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.35]:30181 "EHLO g1t0028.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752596AbZBBRBJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:01:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:01:07 -0700 From: Alex Chiang To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, djwong@us.ibm.com, Trent Piepho , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Q: state of pci express hotplug Message-ID: <20090202170107.GA1027@ldl.fc.hp.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alex Chiang , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, djwong@us.ibm.com, Trent Piepho , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Eric W. Biederman : > > Trying to use the current pciehp code, on real hardware in an > interesting topology (more later) I'm not finding it very > satisfactory at all. I am up to at least three show stopper > bugs and the code is not doing what I really need it to do, so > I am looking at a significant rewrite patch effort to make this > code usable. Can you send us some bug reports instead of making us just guess? > Am I unique in thinking there is a lot that needs to be done? > Is there current work in progress to make the pci hotplug work > better? I think we all want to help, but that's hard if we don't know what's broken on your machine. Thanks. /ac