Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965248AbXJPS7k (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:59:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933912AbXJPS7N (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:59:13 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:3883 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933827AbXJPS7L (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:59:11 -0400 Message-ID: <471509FE.7080505@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:59:10 -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> <47150982.6050102@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <47150982.6050102@rtr.ca> 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 Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 34 Mark Lord wrote: > 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. Ahh.. point 2 in particular suffers from "suspend/resume" not implemented. Or rather, implemented as a pair of "do nothing" functions. Cheers - 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/