From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935421AbXJPS5U (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:57:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751715AbXJPS5I (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:57:08 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1148 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761150AbXJPS5H (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:57:07 -0400 Message-ID: <47150982.6050102@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:57:06 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kristen Carlson Accardi Cc: pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: PCIe Hotplug: NFG unless I boot with card already inserted. References: <4714C0A6.1030204@rtr.ca> <4714D700.7060008@rtr.ca> <20071016084634.8a0d695a.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <47150565.5090102@rtr.ca> <20071016114328.a96e8bcb.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20071016114328.a96e8bcb.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:39:33 -0400 > Mark Lord wrote: > >> I also checked my modprobe.d/ options, and I am using pciehp_force=1. >> Without that flag, none of this ever works. > > OK - I suspected something like this. Most Dell computers don't support > ExpressCard hotplug using Native PCIe -- in fact, I've not seen a single > one, they explicitly disable it because they have not validated it or > they have and something didn't work right. I'll take a look at what you've > got, but be aware that you are forcing pciehp to load and operate on a system > where they've certainly either not tested it, or tested it and something > bad happened. Perhaps. But this one works perfectly, except for two driver bugs: 1. Driver does not notice already-inserted cards after modprobe. 2. Driver fails to function after suspend/resume until reloaded. Both of those are fixable in the kernel. Cheers