Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966724AbXJPWUo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:20:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966642AbXJPWTF (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:19:05 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4782 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966426AbXJPWTC (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:19:02 -0400 Message-ID: <471538D4.1020001@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:19:00 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi , Linux Kernel , pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix PCIe hotplug for Dell notebook ExpressCard slots References: <20071016084634.8a0d695a.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <47150565.5090102@rtr.ca> <20071016114328.a96e8bcb.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <47150982.6050102@rtr.ca> <471509FE.7080505@rtr.ca> <47151191.40406@rtr.ca> <20071016130757.ed2f2ce4.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <4715217D.2000803@rtr.ca> <20071016214143.GC21815@kroah.com> <471533AF.60100@rtr.ca> <20071016220354.GA22828@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20071016220354.GA22828@kroah.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 Content-Length: 1229 Lines: 31 Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:57:03PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> Fix PCIe Hotplug so that it works with ExpressCard slots on Dell notebooks >> in conjunction with modparam of pciehp_force=1. >> >> The PCIe Hotplug driver has two shortcomings when used on Dell notebooks >> which lack ACPI BIOS support for PCIe hotplug: > > Wait, Dell explicitly says that pci hotplug of express cards is not > supported and is broken on these laptops. This is because the version > of Windows they support on these machines also does not support > hotplugging these devices. > > The current code works just fine on hardware that actually supports this > kind of functionality, as per the proper specs and requirements for this > feature. > > So why try to go through these gyrations for hardware that is explicitly > broken? Because it is NOT broken. It works perfectly. There's just a couple of issues in the existing *working* Linux driver that need fixing, that's all. 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/