Re: Thunderbolt hotplug not working on MacMini7,1

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:56:45PM -0400, Adam Goode wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Adam Goode <adam@spicenitz.org> wrote:
> > (resending in plain text)
> > (please CC me on replies, I am not on LKML)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a new Mac Mini (MacMini7,1). This model supports hotplugging of
> > Thunderbolt on Windows 8 and above. Unfortunately hotplug does not
> > seem to be working for me under Linux. I get the default behavior of
> > devices only working if plugged in during boot.
> >
> > Also, the changes made to support Darwin for _OSI seems to make it
> > impossible to override. This makes it hard to test if the ACPI support
> > for Windows 2012 will just work on Linux. I have not built a kernel
> > yet with Darwin _OSI patched out.
> >
> > Any ideas? I think there are 2 ways forward:
> >
> > 1. Fix the thunderbolt code to work with this new Mac.
> > 2. Limit the Darwin _OSI response to a whitelisted set of Mac
> > machines. It seems like new Macs going forward may work best with the
> > standard Windows 2012 response. I don't know if this method would have
> > advantages over #1. The obvious change might be chained hotplugging
> > support. I don't have a chained device to test.
> >
> 
> I have fixed the issue on my machine. On the Mac Mini, the 0x156c
> device has no subvendor or subdevice. When I added the new id to
> nhi_ids, everything worked without changing anything else in the
> kernel. This is in the _OSI("Darwin").
> 
> Perhaps the driver is overmatching on subvendor/subdevice. Is it
> necessary to do so on some models?

Looks like it.

Can you send a patch showing the change you made to get this to work?

thanks,

greg k-h