Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161035Ab3CVQfo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:35:44 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:60404 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161015Ab3CVQfm (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:35:42 -0400 Message-ID: <514C8858.3050702@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:35:36 +0100 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Alex Williamson , Takashi Iwai , Bjorn Helgaas , Oliver Neukum , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] pciehp: Add pciehp_surprise module option References: <1363802953.24132.513.camel@bling.home> <514C8388.3050200@suse.cz> <20130322161644.GA28760@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20130322161644.GA28760@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1163 Lines: 24 On 22.3.2013 17:16, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 05:15:04PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: > >> Alex, Matthew, would it work for you to have this debug / band-aid >> option _and_ have a list of either machines' dmi strings that have this >> problem, or devices' PCI IDs (*), and enable the surprise event handling >> for such machines / devices automatically? The option would be still >> useful for debugging, to be able to easily find out if given machine has >> this problem and needs to be added to the quirk list. > > That's be preferable, but if there's anything we've learned about dmi > strings it's that they usually mean we're doing something wrong. Does > this work with Windows without any quirking? Is there a machine-specific > driver for the PCIe chipset? I don't know. Oliver and Takashi have the machines, but I'm not sure if they have a working Windows image for them. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/