From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752635AbZHaM3q (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:29:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752079AbZHaM3p (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:29:45 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:39530 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751941AbZHaM3p (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:29:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4A9BC239.9060009@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:29:45 -0400 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Mike Mohr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: expresscard hotplug not working References: <4746469c0908251817u225609bax66ea27261a1ef038@mail.gmail.com> <4A96819D.7060708@rtr.ca> <20090830225542.GB901@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20090830225542.GB901@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:52:45AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >> Just create a file called /etc/modprobe.d/pciehp, >> and stick this one line into it: >> >> options pciehp pciehp_force=1 >> >> See if that works. > > It's worth noting that Windows didn't support native pcie hotplug until > Vista, and so any hardware that works with XP (ie, basically all of it, > including Dells) is supposed to be using acpi hotplug instead. I've > fixed one bug that led to acpiphp not working on some hardware, but if > anyone's still running with pciehp_force=1 then please send me the > output of acpidump so it can be fixed properly. .. My Dell works fine with PCIe hotplug under XP, but not under Linux without pciehp=1. I have not retested without that parameter for quite some time, though. What do I have to do to retest with "acpihp" ? Thanks.