Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762578AbXKMVbZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:31:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758678AbXKMVbP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:31:15 -0500 Received: from palrel11.hp.com ([156.153.255.246]:56342 "EHLO palrel11.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757900AbXKMVbO (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:31:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:31:08 -0700 From: Alex Chiang To: Matt Domsch Cc: Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , gregkh@suse.de, kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org, rick.jones2@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects Message-ID: <20071113213108.GB7541@ldl.fc.hp.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alex Chiang , Matt Domsch , Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , gregkh@suse.de, kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org, rick.jones2@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org References: <20071113000853.GA13341@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20071113170129.GA20185@kroah.com> <20071113183353.GE17785@parisc-linux.org> <20071113185122.GA22536@kroah.com> <20071113211509.GB19146@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071113211509.GB19146@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 794 Lines: 21 * Matt Domsch : > > The only reported _SUN problems on Dell systems were on the > PE6800 and PE6850 systems, which we've fixed with an updated > BIOS several months ago. IIRC the values weren't always unique > which kind of defeated the purpose. FWIW, the ACPI 2.0 spec did not require uniqueness for _SUN. (although there is a strange table that refers to _SUN as the slot-unique ID (table 6-1 in spec v2.0b), the actual definition of _SUN does not mention uniqueness). Uniqueness was first required in the 3.0 spec. /ac - 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/